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Ricky D’Andrea Crano 614-746-3237 | [email protected] | [email protected]

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Education

Ph.D. Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 2014

Dissertation: “Posthuman Capital: Neoliberalism, Telematics, and the Project of Self-Control”

Advisors: Philip Armstrong and Brian Rotman

Readers: Eugene Holland, Kris Paulsen (History of Art), Alexander Galloway (Media and Culture, New York University)

Examination Areas: Critical Media Theory; Philosophy of Visual Culture; Cinema and Time

M.A. English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 2006

Examination Areas: Performance Studies; Critical Theory

B.A. Philosophy, English, Political Science. Ashland University. Ashland, OH, December 2003

Research Interests

• Media and New Media Ecology

• Politics and Aesthetics of Digital Culture

• The Intellectual History of Neoliberalism

• Posthumanism, Cybernetics, Systems Theory

• Post-Marxist and Poststructuralist Critical, Cultural, and Social Theory

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Whatever Rubbish At Hand: The Emergence of the Media Sample in Guy Debord’s Films,” in Sampling Media, ed. David Laderman and Laurel Westrup. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. 43–59.

• “Genealogy, Virtuality, War (1651/1976),” in Foucault Studies 11 (Winter 2011): 156–178.

• “Haptic Spectatorship and the Political Life of Cruelty, or, Antonin Artaud Signaling through the Flames,” in The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Spring 2010): 49–68.

• “Occupy without Counting: Furtive Urbanism in the Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,” in Film-Philosophy 13.1 (2009): 1–15.

Academic Book Reviews and Other Publications

• “Giving Shape to Painful Things,” Interview with Claire Fontaine (with Andrew Culp), Radical Philosophy 175 (Sept/Oct 2012): 43–52.

• Review, Todd McGowan, Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema, in Film-Philosophy 16.1 (2012): 292–298.

• Review, Joseph Mai, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, in Film-Philosophy 15.2 (2011): 119–125.

• Review, Sean O’Sullivan and Stephen Zepke, Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New, in Foucault Studies 12 (Fall 2011).

• “A More Vital Communication: Telepathic Hallucination and the Proto-Posthuman Event,” In Media Res presents “Posthumanism and Media,” March, 2011. Curated visual exhibit. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2011/03/04/more-vital-communication-telepathic-hallucination-and-proto-posthuman-event-0

• “Cinema and Empire,” review, Michael J. Shapiro, Cinematic Geopolitics, in Film-Philosophy 14.1 (2010): 475–480.

• Review, Martin Harries, Forgetting Lot’s Wife, in Film-Philosophy 12.1 (2008): 117–124.

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• “Guy Debord and the Aesthetics of Cine-Sabotage," in Senses of Cinema 42 (Winter 2007). http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/great-directors/debord/

Professional Presentations and Workshops

• “Hermeneutics of the Neoliberal Subject.” Foucault Circle annual meeting, Richmond, VA, March 2015.

• “Arts of Steering: On Governing the Posthuman.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Dallas, October 2014.

• “Ubiquitous Computing and the Micro-Entrepreneurial Spirit: Diffuse Competition in the Service Provider Marketplace.” Apps and Affect, University of Western Ontario, London, October 2013 (paper accepted, unable to attend).

• “Subjectivity and Truth in Chicago School Social Theory.” Rethinking Marxism, Amherst, September 2013.

• “Self-representation in the Cast of Homo Financius: Towards a Theory of Posthuman Capital.” Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture and Society, Columbus, June 2013.

• “The Ends of Biopolitics: Human Capitalist as Homo Financius, Governmentality as Telematic Self-Control.” Foucault Circle annual meeting, Montreal, April 2013.

• “From the Chicago School to the Smartphone: Towards a Genealogy of the Telematic Self.” Hayes Research Forum, Columbus, February 2013.

• “Financialization and Subjectivity: On Governing the Posthuman.” Comparative Studies departmental lecture series, Columbus, February 2013.

• “Neoliberalism and Precarity: Investment in Self and Others.” Guest lecture in “Culture and Capital: Precarity” graduate seminar, The Ohio State, September 2012.

• “Time-Image as Counter-Control: Deleuze’s Intervals.” Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans, June 2012.

• Participant, Deleuze Studies Summer Workshop: “Deterritorializing Deleuze,” New Orleans, June 2012.

• “Neoliberalism @ Cybernetics: Theorizing the Telematic Socius of Contemporary Finance.” Cultural Studies Association, San Diego, March 2012

• “The End of Oblivion in the Infinite Present: Notes on the Sociotemporality of Capitalism with Derivatives,” Seminar: On Speculation, Cultural Studies Association, San Diego, March 2012.

• "The Telematic Technics of Neoliberal Governmentality; or, Media Demassification in the Societies of Control," ATLAS Conference: Digital (De-)(Re-)Territorialization, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, March 2012.

• “From the Chicago School to the Smart Phone: Rethinking the Legacies of Wiener and Hayek.” Aesthetics/Class/Worlds: Conference of the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 2011.

• “From Hayek to Rancière: Remarks on Neoliberal Subjectivation.” Northwestern Summer Institute, Evanston, July 2011.

• Participant, Northwestern Summer Institute: Jacques Rancière, The Center for Global Culture and Communication, Evanston, July 2011.

• “Guy Maddin’s Virtual Lost and Found: The Mnemo-Poetics of Hauntings.” ZdC Graduate Conference, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, April 2011 (paper accepted, unable to attend).

• “Philosophies of Phantasms, Societies of Control: Deleuze, Telepathy, and the New Politics of New Media.” Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, March 2011.

• "1651/1976: Genealogy, Virtuality, War.” Foucault Circle Annual Meeting, Baltimore, April 2010.

• “Machines that Gesture, Shots that Cut: Notes on Agamben’s Cinematic Thought.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 2010.

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• Moderator, “2012 and Post-apocalyptic/post-revolutionary/post-utopian politics,” ROYGBIV Gallery, Columbus, February 2010.

• Participant, “Time, Technology, and the Political,” workshop in Political Theory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, October 2009.

• “‘Occupy without Counting’: Furtive Urbanism in the Films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, March 2009.

• “Spectatorial De-Structuring and the Affective Space of the Mise-en-Scène.” Bodies in Pain/Pleasure: Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies, Columbus, January 2009.

• “Death of a President (2006): Counter-Cinema for the Present.” Pop Culture Association Conference. Boston, April 2007.

• “’I Blame Hym Thus’: Lordly Hegemony and Echoic Iconoclasm in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale.” International Conference on Medievalism. Columbus, October 2006.

• “Vibratory Understanding: Language, Identity, and Therapeutics in Artaud’s Theater of Cruelty.” Intimacy/Proximity: A National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. Bloomington, April 2005.

Invited Talks

• “On Spectatorship and the Image: The Aesthetic Philosophy of Jacques Rancière.” The Video Support Group Film School, Columbus, April 2010.

• “From Image to Gesture and Back Again: Giorgio Agamben and the Cinematization of Thought.” Gesture at Large Conference and Art Exhibition, Columbus, February 2010.

Articles in Progress

• “Between Hayek and Google: The Future of Neoliberalism in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing”

• “On Crowdsourcing: Telematic Revolution and the Societies of Self-Control”

• “Towards a Theory of the Posthuman Sciences”

• “Foucault after Becker: From Self-Investment to Self-Care”

• “Chance and Genesis in Economics and the Arts: Hayek, Galanter, Deleuze”

Awards and Honors

• Humanities Delegate, Hayes Research Forum, The Ohio State University, 2013.

• Presidential Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2012.

• Faculty Research and Professional Development Grant, Department of English, George Mason University, 2011.

• Travel and Research Grant, College of Arts and Humanities, The Ohio State University, 2010.

• Graduate Student Travel Grants, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008–2010, 2012–2013.

• Graduate Student Travel Grant, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 2005.

Teaching Experience

Unless otherwise noted, all courses designed and taught independently :

Lecturer, English, Tufts University, 2015–present

• First-Year Writing Program, English 1 & 2

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Introductory and intermediate-level expository and analytical writing courses.

Lecturer, Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2014–2015

• Science and Technology in American Culture

Intermediate-level expository writing course centered around themes of technoscience, posthumanism, and the social and political impact of the computer.

• American Identity in the World

Intermediate-level expository writing course with literary and cultural focal points.

• Introduction to the Humanities

General education course providing exposure to diverse cultures, ideas, and literary forms. Particular emphasis on issues of globalization, colonialism, and technology.

Graduate Teaching Associate, Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008–2014

• Global Studies of Science and Technology

Upper-level “capstone” course, exploring relations between culture, science, and technology in a changing global context. Focus on critical evaluation of Western science and technology in the modern age, with special consideration of non-Western approaches.

• Film and Literature as Narrative Art

Intermediate-level film and cultural studies course with a focus on cinematic and literary depictions of trauma, memory, forgetting, and loss across cultures. Emphasis on form, structure, and manipulations of temporal experience in art.

• Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies

Survey of critical, cultural, and social theory and comparative methodologies. The first in a sequence of required classes for cultural studies majors.

• Literature and Society

General Education course focusing on comparative analyses of colonial and post-colonial literature.

• The Holocaust in Film and Literature (Teaching Assistant)

Intermediate-level lecture course cross-listed with Department of Germanic Languages and Literature.

Adjunct Professor, Philosophy, Columbus College of Art and Design, 2014

• Introduction to Philosophy

Core curriculum offering familiarizing students with history and fundamental concepts of logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.

Adjunct Professor, English, George Mason University, 2011

• First-Year Composition

Introductory course emphasizing cultural criticism and the notion of writing histories of the present.

Graduate Teaching Associate, English, The Ohio State University, 2004–2006

• The American Experience

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Second-level writing course with a focus on the mythologizing of the American West in literature and film.

• First-Year Composition with Literature Theme

Introductory writing course with a focus on Literature of the Fantastic.

• First-Year Composition

Introductory writing course with a focus on rhetorical analysis and cultural criticism.

University Service and Academic Employment

• Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2013.

• Research Assistant, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, University of Chicago, 2011.

• Treasurer, Comparative Studies Graduate Student Group, 2009–2010.

• Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University, 2008–2009.

• Administrative Assistant, Cultural Difference and Democracy Working Group, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 2008–2009.

• Reader and Organizational Assistant, Bodies in Pain/Pleasure: Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies, 2008–2009.

• Administrative Associate, Writing Workshop, The Ohio State University, Summer 2005.

• Reader, Writing Workshop Placement Committee, The Ohio State University, Summer 2005.

Professional Affiliations and Working Groups

• Culture Studies Association

• Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

• Media Ecology Association

• Foucault Circle

• Animal Worlds in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (AWASH), Center for Ethics and Human Values, The Ohio State University

• Precarity and Social Contract Working Group, Humanities Institute, The Ohio State University