Joanna Zylinska

 

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Joanna Zylinska is a cultural theorist writing on new technologies and new media, ethics and art. She is a Reader in New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. The author of Bioethics in the Age of New Media (MIT Press, 2009), The Ethics of Cultural Studies (Continuum, 2005) and On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester University Press, 2001), she is also the editor of The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, a collection of essays on the work of performance artists Stelarc and Orlan (Continuum, 2002) and co-editor of Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Zylinska is currently working on a new book on the idea of mediation, Life after New Media (with Sarah Kember). She is Reviews Editor for Culture Machine, an international open-access journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. Zylinska also combines her philosophical writings with photographic art practice, which brings together old and new photographic techniques to creatively remediate the history of photography as well as its yet uncertain future.

Read Joanna Zylinska's work in the Cultural Studies e-Archive CSeARCH