Watch lecture here “Imagine the archive of the world’s religions and their histories made readily accessible to you in a single application. Imagine never having…
From a special issue of Grey Room on “Pious Technologies and Secular Designs” edited by María González Pendás and Whitney Laemmli “Bad Brains: Cybernetics, Paranoia,…
“Artificial Intelligence,” Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture, ed. Chad Seales (Routledge, 2025): 477-96 (with accompanying mixtape)
“In this age of lying and looting, the authority of the archive dissolves. The learned appreciation for the material world corrodes and the making of…
In this episode of Chasing Leviathan, PJ and Dr. John Modern discuss the dynamic relationship between the histories of neuroscience and religion, including brain studies…
The Institute of the Mechanical Surround (IMS) is a production studio, a label, and a workspace for experimental collaborations between scholars, musicians, and artists. The…
Mixtape Metaphysics, a Multimedia Installation Exploring Philosophy, Technology, and Religion On View at Modern Art Through Fall 2025 Mixtape Metaphysics is a space of deep…
Introductory remarks on the screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey; or, Communique #7 from the Institute of the Mechanical Surround (11.13.24) <<<<>>>> As co-director of…
In 1966 the French company Michelin contracted with Sears to sell radial tires in the United States. Radials lasted longer than bias-ply tires (long the…
The Symposium appears in Religious Studies Review 49: 3 (September 2023): 309-29. The Symposium began as a panel at the 2022 American Academy of Religion…