About the Author

Alexander R. Galloway is associate professor of media studies at New York University. He is the author of four books on digital media and critical theory, most recently, The Interface Effect. Eugene Thacker is associate professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School. He is the author of many books, including After Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press. McKenzie Wark is professor of liberal studies at the New School. His books include A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.

Reviews

"[A] provocative, unapologetic study.... [T]he open-minded reader is rewarded with a stimulating, scathing theory critique. Recommended."
-- "Choice"

"[T]he authors provide a salutary shaking up of a discourse often at once moribund or moving all too quickly, while also indicating the absolutely crucial importance that the subterranean energies of soma, the body, still play in these future directions."
-- "Afterimage"

"At a moment when media theory seems both ubiquitous and amorphous, more necessary than ever, yet often trapped in old paradigms or infatuated with new technology, Excommunication makes a timely and provocative intervention. There's so much intellectual ferment in this historically informed, radically contemporary volume that it might well be a founding document--has the New York school of media theory finally arrived?"-- "Thomas Bartscherer, Bard College"

"Highly enjoyable and excellent in terms of the burgeoning area of media philosophy."
-- "Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"