Written Work

Here you can download my (embargoed) dissertation, and see my thesis below as a diagram. 

Here is the preface:

The first academic paper I ever published was entitled “Arrested by the Preface.” It described the

act of prefacing as a (snowballing) performative disclosure of the superegoic constraints on one’s

right to speak. Whether in the realm of micro-interaction, or in dealing with global cybernetic

infrastructure, I have never left the question of the social (power) mechanisms that hold back

expression. If Psychology pathologizes new regimes of communication, and these regimes of

communication are themselves manifestations of capitalist enclosure and expropriation of

culture, what is a user to do? Between the grips of Deleuzo-Guattarian and Lacanian legacies, I

struggled to find ways out from the blessing and curse that is my own online life, and what I later

learned to understand as the various modes of commodification of self-actualization. Perhaps the

most resolute message I could convey in a preface, that might ward off an even greater need to

preface again, is for the reader to hold steady. This work is unfinished. There are volumes to

come. The fight is far from over, and it will take the entire 99% of us in arms together in order

for us to finally fulfill on the injunction to “be ourselves.”