Books :: Online Scholarship :: Grants :: Editing
Two historical periods are important to my research:
1) The rise of progressive era American corporate, scientific, and educational institutions and the development of new communication, transportation, and information processing technologies.
2) The extension of mass media networks and the rise of the electronics industry in post-1960s America. I have written and spoken on the following themes:
a. The role of the electronics industry in redefining our conceptions of consumption and production.
b. The relationship of communication and information processing technologies to post-modern art and contemporary science.
c. The rise of modeling, simulation, and gaming as a novel epistemological framework.
I am an interdisciplinary scholar using the tools of cultural and intellectual history, critical theory, media theory, and science and technology studies.
Coming Soon:
Breeding True: The Emergence of Genetic Rationality. Seattle: University of Washington Press, under contract.
Reimagining Biocommerce: Owning Body Parts and Information.Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press, under consideration.
Coauthored with Robert E. Mitchell (English, Duke University) and Helen Burgess (Electronic Media and Culture, Washington State University in Vancouver). An interactive DVD-ROM from the Mariner 10 Series of multimedia publications.
Available Now:
Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. Coedited with Robert E. Mitchell.
Reviewed at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies with authors' response.
Reviewed in Leonardo by Eugene Thacker.
Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. Coedited with Robert E. Mitchell. A Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Short Subject.
Reviewed at the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies with authors' response.
:: Online Scholarship ::
THE GENOMIC BOOK OF THE DEAD
An essay commisioned by the Henry Art Gallery for the Gene(sis) Exhibit
"THE G FILES": LINKING THE "SELFISH GENE" AND "THE THINKING REED"
An essay commisioned by Stanford University for the Stanford Presidential
Symposia in the Humanities and Arts
THE CREATION OF GENETIC IDENTITY
An essay for the Stanford Humanities Review, Volume 5 Special Supplement
"Cultural and Technological Incubations of Fascism"
:: Major Grants and Research Honors ::
2005: North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Education Enhancement Grant for the production of “Reimagining Biocommerce: Owning Body Parts and Information” (Co-Primary Investigator along with Robert Mitchell, English, Duke University and Helen Burgess, Digital Technology and Culture, Washington State University in Vancouver).
2004: Faculty Research Award for the Carleton Immersive Media Studio (Co-investigator, along with others including Primary Investigator, Michael Jemtrud, Architecture, Carleton University).
2000-2001: Walter Simpson Chapin Humanities Center Award “Information and the Human Body” (along with Robert Mitchell, Comparative Literature, University of Washington).
1998-1999: Melvin and Joan Lane Graduate Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology.
1996-1997: Andrew P. Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University.
1992-1996: History Department Fellowship, Stanford University.
In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedicine
Universityof Washington Press
Phillip has been an online editor of H-SCI-MED-TECH since 2000. H-SCI-MED-TECH is an international discussion network serving over 1850 scholars interested in the history of science, medicine, and technology and how they inform each other. It is a member of H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online.