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…
Listen to a conversation between Sylvester Johnson and John Modern on the brain and the future of humanistic inquiry
“In the Age of Cybernetic Systems What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive?,” Political Theology Network (April 29, 2021)
Miscellany, sundry ephemera, backstories, non-sequiturs from: Neuromatic; or, a particular history of religion and the brain (University of Chicago Press, 2021) ________________________________________________________________________________ Press Play for…
“Science.” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. For A Universe of Terms curated by Mona Oraby and Daniel Vaca. December 2019
from Theses on History and Theory: A Forum Responding to the blistering manifesto by Joan Scott, Gary Wilder, and Ethan Kleinberg, I write: The computer…