Anthony Enns
Biographic Data
| ID | 968019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Enns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Enns |
| SIGNATURE | ENNS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1819-6836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interactive Cinema
The Lab Book
The field of science and technology studies (STS) includes numerous analyses of laboratory practices. For example, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) famously described how these practices are shaped by conceptual paradigms that determine what a scientist can perceive and measure. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar’s Laboratory Life (1979) also examined how these practices were related to other aspects of knowledge productio…
Media Theory
Most countries experienced an extended period of lockdown during 2021 due to the rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and the comparatively slow process of developing and distributing effective vaccines. It is therefore no surprise that the pandemic was often mentioned in the introductions to books on media theory, although these projects were clearly conceived and written long before the pandemic began, and many of them were directly r…
Deceitful Media
May 25 2022 Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern. by Simone Natale. Oxford University Press: New York, 2021. 204 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-008036-5; ISBN: 978-0-19-0080372. Anthony Enns Anthony Enns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anthony Enns O…
Academia, Fandom, and Philip K. Dick
171 BOOKS IN REVIEW Academia, Fandom, and Philip K. Dick. David Sandner, ed. Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now. McFarland, 2020. 226 pp. $39.95 pbk. In 1972 Willis E. McNelly, a professor at California State University, helped Philip K. Dick relocate to Fullerton, California. Dick remained there for the rest of his life and many of his later novels were directly inspired by his experiences there, including A Scanner Darkly (1977) and Rad…
The Illusion of Control
The term “interactive television” initially referred to the idea that television might facilitate two-way communication between viewers. In the 1980s, this term was also used to refer to television’s ability to provide access to interactive menus and electronic services, and in the 1990s, it was used to refer to the idea that viewers could potentially alter the content of television programs. This new definition has now become possible due to the…
Martian channels
In 1899 radio pioneer Nikola Tesla claimed to have received a wireless transmission from the planet Mars, which not only confirmed the existence of intelligent life but also invited a response. The public was immediately captivated by the idea that Mars was attempting to communicate with the Earth, and this widespread fascination reflected not only a belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life but also a notion of radio as a transnational me…
Psience Fiction
171 BOOKS IN REVIEW BOOKS IN REVIEW Surveying the Psi Boom in Postwar SF. Damien Broderick. Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 244pp. $45 pbk. The first sentence of Damien Broderick’s new book, Psience Fiction, describes the prevalence of psychic powers or “psionics” as “perhaps the strangest aspect” of postwar sf (7). It is strange because the other two major themes—atomic power and spa…
The Age of Lovecraft
April 01 2018 The Age of Lovecraft The Age of Lovecraft edited by Carl H.Sederholm and Jeffrey AndrewWeinstock. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2016. 268 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0816699247; ISBN: 978-0816699254. Anthony Enns Anthony Enns Department of English, Dalhousie University. Email:[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anthony Enns D…
Crackpots, Conspiracies, and Cults
The Psychopathology of Postwar SF
Chronopoetics
Psychic Radio
This paper examines the impact of psychical research on the development of wireless technology as well as the influence of wireless on scientific interpretations of psychic phenomena. The invention of wireless was originally based on the notion that an invisible yet material ether permeated the universe, and this theory was employed to explain sensory perception as well as the transmission of thoughts as brain waves. Wireless thus inspired a radi…
The politics of Ostalgie
The word Ostalgie – a combination of the German words for ‘nostalgia’ and ‘east’ – has emerged in Germany over the last few years as part of a widespread reevaluation of the history of the former German Democratic Republic. This term is often associated with communist kitsch, and it thus appears to illustrate nostalgia's inherent failure to engage with history. Rather than interpreting recent Ostalgie films as a sentimental whitewashing of the ha…
Media, Drugs, and Schizophrenia in the Works of Philip K. Dick
This essay employs the work of German media theorists Friedrich Kittler and Wolfgang Hagen to introduce a new way of understanding the role of media technologies in Philip K. Dick’s fiction. Dick incorporates material from a wide range of scientific fields in order to formulate a conceptual model of consciousness as a medial interface, thoroughly integrated with the electric media environment, thus illustrating Kittler’s claim that the discovery …
Exhibition Catalogue
June 01 2006 Exhibition Catalogue: The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult Anthony Enns Anthony Enns Department of English, University of Iowa, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anthony Enns Department of English, University of Iowa, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Online ISSN: 1530-9282 Print ISSN: 0024-094X © 2006 Massachusetts Ins…
Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and His Master's Voice
This essay examines the representation of communication technologies in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris His Master's Voice. Following John Johnston's definition of "mediality" as "the ways in which a literary text inscribes in its own language the effects produced by other media" (175), I argue that Lem employs the scenario of alien contact in these novels in order to represent the effects produced by competing media technologies. By metaphorically prese…
The Art and Artiface of Peter Greenaway
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 2, January 1998
The politics of Ostalgie
The word Ostalgie – a combination of the German words for ‘nostalgia’ and ‘east’ – has emerged in Germany over the last few years as part of a widespread reevaluation of the history of the former German Democratic Republic. This term is often associated with communist kitsch, and it thus appears to illustrate nostalgia's inherent failure to engage with history. Rather than interpreting recent Ostalgie films as a sentimental whitewashing of the ha…
Psychic Radio
This paper examines the impact of psychical research on the development of wireless technology as well as the influence of wireless on scientific interpretations of psychic phenomena. The invention of wireless was originally based on the notion that an invisible yet material ether permeated the universe, and this theory was employed to explain sensory perception as well as the transmission of thoughts as brain waves. Wireless thus inspired a radi…
Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and His Master's Voice
This essay examines the representation of communication technologies in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris His Master's Voice. Following John Johnston's definition of "mediality" as "the ways in which a literary text inscribes in its own language the effects produced by other media" (175), I argue that Lem employs the scenario of alien contact in these novels in order to represent the effects produced by competing media technologies. By metaphorically prese…
The Art and Artiface of Peter Greenaway
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 2, January 1998
Mediality and Mourning in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and His Master's Voice
This essay examines the representation of communication technologies in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris His Master's Voice. Following John Johnston's definition of "mediality" as "the ways in which a literary text inscribes in its own language the effects produced by other media" (175), I argue that Lem employs the scenario of alien contact in these novels in order to represent the effects produced by competing media technologies. By metaphorically prese…
Media, Drugs, and Schizophrenia in the Works of Philip K. Dick
This essay employs the work of German media theorists Friedrich Kittler and Wolfgang Hagen to introduce a new way of understanding the role of media technologies in Philip K. Dick’s fiction. Dick incorporates material from a wide range of scientific fields in order to formulate a conceptual model of consciousness as a medial interface, thoroughly integrated with the electric media environment, thus illustrating Kittler’s claim that the discovery …
Exhibition Catalogue
June 01 2006 Exhibition Catalogue: The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult Anthony Enns Anthony Enns Department of English, University of Iowa, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anthony Enns Department of English, University of Iowa, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Online ISSN: 1530-9282 Print ISSN: 0024-094X © 2006 Massachusetts Ins…
The politics of Ostalgie
The word Ostalgie – a combination of the German words for ‘nostalgia’ and ‘east’ – has emerged in Germany over the last few years as part of a widespread reevaluation of the history of the former German Democratic Republic. This term is often associated with communist kitsch, and it thus appears to illustrate nostalgia's inherent failure to engage with history. Rather than interpreting recent Ostalgie films as a sentimental whitewashing of the ha…
Psychic Radio
This paper examines the impact of psychical research on the development of wireless technology as well as the influence of wireless on scientific interpretations of psychic phenomena. The invention of wireless was originally based on the notion that an invisible yet material ether permeated the universe, and this theory was employed to explain sensory perception as well as the transmission of thoughts as brain waves. Wireless thus inspired a radi…
The Psychopathology of Postwar SF
Chronopoetics
Crackpots, Conspiracies, and Cults
The Age of Lovecraft
April 01 2018 The Age of Lovecraft The Age of Lovecraft edited by Carl H.Sederholm and Jeffrey AndrewWeinstock. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2016. 268 pp., illus. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0816699247; ISBN: 978-0816699254. Anthony Enns Anthony Enns Department of English, Dalhousie University. Email:[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anthony Enns D…
Martian channels
In 1899 radio pioneer Nikola Tesla claimed to have received a wireless transmission from the planet Mars, which not only confirmed the existence of intelligent life but also invited a response. The public was immediately captivated by the idea that Mars was attempting to communicate with the Earth, and this widespread fascination reflected not only a belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life but also a notion of radio as a transnational me…
Psience Fiction
171 BOOKS IN REVIEW BOOKS IN REVIEW Surveying the Psi Boom in Postwar SF. Damien Broderick. Psience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 244pp. $45 pbk. The first sentence of Damien Broderick’s new book, Psience Fiction, describes the prevalence of psychic powers or “psionics” as “perhaps the strangest aspect” of postwar sf (7). It is strange because the other two major themes—atomic power and spa…
The Illusion of Control
The term “interactive television” initially referred to the idea that television might facilitate two-way communication between viewers. In the 1980s, this term was also used to refer to television’s ability to provide access to interactive menus and electronic services, and in the 1990s, it was used to refer to the idea that viewers could potentially alter the content of television programs. This new definition has now become possible due to the…
Academia, Fandom, and Philip K. Dick
171 BOOKS IN REVIEW Academia, Fandom, and Philip K. Dick. David Sandner, ed. Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now. McFarland, 2020. 226 pp. $39.95 pbk. In 1972 Willis E. McNelly, a professor at California State University, helped Philip K. Dick relocate to Fullerton, California. Dick remained there for the rest of his life and many of his later novels were directly inspired by his experiences there, including A Scanner Darkly (1977) and Rad…
Media Theory
Most countries experienced an extended period of lockdown during 2021 due to the rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 cases and the comparatively slow process of developing and distributing effective vaccines. It is therefore no surprise that the pandemic was often mentioned in the introductions to books on media theory, although these projects were clearly conceived and written long before the pandemic began, and many of them were directly r…
Deceitful Media
May 25 2022 Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern. by Simone Natale. Oxford University Press: New York, 2021. 204 pp. Trade, paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-008036-5; ISBN: 978-0-19-0080372. Anthony Enns Anthony Enns Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anthony Enns O…
The Lab Book
The field of science and technology studies (STS) includes numerous analyses of laboratory practices. For example, Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) famously described how these practices are shaped by conceptual paradigms that determine what a scientist can perceive and measure. Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar’s Laboratory Life (1979) also examined how these practices were related to other aspects of knowledge productio…
Interactive Cinema
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