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Windows 85
Christopher Campanioni, PhD
Lecturer, English
What is the central theme of your book?
The theme is identity and copresence in the age of platform capitalism and transmediation, a 男女操逼视频软件渘etworked intimacy男女操逼视频软件 that I男女操逼视频软件檝e engaged with for many years in my research and teaching.
What inspired you to write this book?
I男女操逼视频软件檓 not sure if 男女操逼视频软件渋nspiration男女操逼视频软件 is the right word, but I was drawn to the invitation and challenge to adapt my research in the field of media studies男女操逼视频软件攖heorizations about eyeless voyeurism and surveillant assemblages, glitch aesthetics, and the fungibility of the face男女操逼视频软件攖o the mode of poetry, the form and structure of lineated verse. A lot of my work is rooted in translation, through languages and through sign systems (what folks in the academy call 男女操逼视频软件渋ntermediality男女操逼视频软件); this kind of linguistic alterity, linguistic estrangement, is what I男女操逼视频软件檝e been working through for many years, as both instructor and scholar, writer and translator, but also as a person. And the play with/in language that serves as, if not inspiration, then the engine for Windows 85, is where I trace my own desire to write, or at least to work with words男女操逼视频软件攖he exophonic urges of growing up in a home in which I was the only native English speaker, who nevertheless still feels very not fluent in English.
Why is this book important in your field? What does it contribute to the current body of knowledge on this topic?
Formally and aesthetically, as I mentioned above, I think Windows 85 provides a very specific model on how scholars might adapt their research for the public. The ideas and questions that are explored and interrogated here continue investigations of mine published in leading journals across media studies, critical theory and philosophy, and biography and autobiography studies, including Diacritics, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Social Identities, and Life Writing. I男女操逼视频软件檓 in the English department but my work is not really focused on any one field; I男女操逼视频软件檇 like to think that Windows 85, like my other creative publications, contributes to the growing field of critical creative writing, or what some scholars call CEW (Critical Experimental Writing), which challenges the base separation of 男女操逼视频软件渃ritical男女操逼视频软件 and 男女操逼视频软件渃reative,男女操逼视频软件 but also the borders between disciplines and the material boundaries of the institution and the public.
Tell me about a particularly special moment in writing this book.
Windows 85 was written on the go, quite literally. After I defended and deposited my dissertation at The Graduate Center, I spent twelve weeks traveling through parts of Europe. So the many sites男女操逼视频软件擝ologna, Berlin, Marseilles, Paris, Lisbon, et cetera男女操逼视频软件攐rbiting the book男女操逼视频软件檚 network are engrained in the fabric, but the poems themselves reference many of the unlikely encounters a person traveling for so long without pause男女操逼视频软件攁nd lacking a stable Wi-Fi connection男女操逼视频软件攎ight experience, like an interview conducted at a historic tennis club or a virtual poetry reading performed at a local gelateria.
What is the one thing you hope readers take away from your book?
W85 moves between settings and subject positions in a casually aggressive manner男女操逼视频软件攔eminds me of the way my web browser inevitably accumulates windows and tabs throughout the day男女操逼视频软件攕o that it becomes problematic to locate a stable subject or a single source, obscured by the poems男女操逼视频软件 proliferation of bodies and sometimes body parts. I like thinking about poetry男女操逼视频软件檚 power, more generally, to invite multiplicity and displacement. And I男女操逼视频软件檇 want readers to hold onto that, or to see the potential usefulness男女操逼视频软件攖he potential, even, for subversion男女操逼视频软件攊n moments of discrepancy, or interruption, or indeterminacy, illegibility.
What other books have you published?
My novel, Going Down, was awarded Best First Book at the International Latino Book Awards in 2014, and since then I男女操逼视频软件檝e published across genres, including two hybrid nonfiction books (Death of Art and the Internet is for real, both from C&R Press), another novel named VHS (CLASH Books), a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press), a notebook now in its second edition titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition), and a monograph on migrant subjectivity and works of art born in translation named Drift Net (Lever Press), a version of which was awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research in 2022.
Fun Facts
When did you join Dyson?
I joined Dyson in the fall of 2015男女操逼视频软件攁lmost a decade ago男女操逼视频软件攂ut this is my first year as a full-time instructor in the English department.
What motivates you as a teacher?
My students and their energy and curiosity. As a teacher, I think of myself as a radio player, tasked with the responsibility to tune to the different frequencies of each student, each with their own needs, their own interests, their own lives within and without the shared space of our classroom. And my favorite part about the radio is what people call 男女操逼视频软件渋nterference男女操逼视频软件: the moments when you receive a signal you hadn男女操逼视频软件檛 intended or could have never planned. These unforeseen and unforeseeable moments in the classroom are often the most meaningful.
What do you do in your spare time; to relax/unwind?
I wish I were better at unwinding, but I男女操逼视频软件檝e always had trouble relaxing. In fact, I get most of my writing and research done when I男女操逼视频软件檓 at my busiest. I suppose when I男女操逼视频软件檓 not reading, writing, or caring for our toddler, Desi, I 男女操逼视频软件渦nwind男女操逼视频软件 by playing tennis. I fell in love with the sport again at the beginning of the pandemic, because it was one of the few activities that were still permitted during the strict sheltering guidelines. I love tennis because it男女操逼视频软件檚 a lot like writing, or reading for that matter. There男女操逼视频软件檚 such a strenuous physical challenge in tennis but it男女操逼视频软件檚 also so intellectual; the scenario is changing on the fly, and the only way to respond is to attend to patterns and make inferences: immediacy, guesswork, risk, vulnerability.
What are you reading right now?
I男女操逼视频软件檝e just finished rereading some of my favorite novels about migration and displacement男女操逼视频软件攂ooks like Olga Tokarczuk男女操逼视频软件檚 Flights, Cristina Garc铆a男女操逼视频软件檚 Here in Berlin, and Dubravka Ugre拧i膰男女操逼视频软件檚 Museum of Unconditional Surrender男女操逼视频软件攂ecause I男女操逼视频软件檓 preparing an essay for LitHub on 男女操逼视频软件渟econdhand relations,男女操逼视频软件 in part to celebrate the March launch of my next book, a novel called VHS about a narrator on the trail of his parents男女操逼视频软件 exiles who believes that he can transfer these moments, once found or filmed, onto interconnected videocassettes and thus learn something about his own past.