Tim Blackmore
Professor
Information and Media Studies
BIO
I work on all kinds of projects, and I love that. I read, see and write about popular culture, particularly science fiction (in prose, film, animation, jello...it doesn't matter to me what the medium is), but also comics and comic strips, science fiction film design (I know that sounds specific, but it's a huge field). I also focus a great deal on what Leo Marx called The Machine in the Garden, and the persistence of the pastoral in this weird age of post-everything and all-transparency. We need to stay grounded. Is that too Modernist to say? Robots, AI, cyborg bodies, all grist for my mill. I write a great deal about war, real actual war and also fictional war. I don't do that because I love it but because I believe it's a sickness we have to cure. (Better get started on that! Ouch!)