UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Matt Tierney, assistant professor of English at Penn State, will present a lecture titled “Critical Cyberculture in the Large World House” at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, in the Grucci Room (102 Burrowes Building) on Penn State's University Park campus.
Tierney’s presentation features excerpts from his upcoming book, "A World of Incomparables: Interruptions of Communicative Globalism," which examines the political and aesthetic dynamic of the late 1960s — a period when some poets and activists responded with mixed feelings toward automation, nuclear proliferation, and the apparent cohesion of an electronic “global village.”
Tierney’s fields include media theory, cultural studies, American fiction and film, with a particular interest in aesthetic approaches to the politics of race, sexuality and technology during the 20th century. Tierney received his doctorate in modern culture and media from Brown University and is the author of "What Lies Between: Void Aesthetics and Postwar Post-Politics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).
The lecture, presented by the Department of English’s Digital Culture and Media Initiative, is free and open to the public.