Networkologies

Welcome to the online home of Christopher Vitale, Assistant Professor of Media and Critical/Visual Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

The primary aim of this site is to act as a platform for the development of my primary endeavor, Networkologies, a project to articulate a new philosophy of networks for our hyperconnected age.

The first volume of this project, entitled Networkologies:  A New Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age, Vol. I – From Diagram to World, is under contract to be published by Zer0 books in Spring 2012. Volume One will hopefully be followed by Volume Two: The Networked World, and Volume Three: Network Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics. Much of the first draft of volumes two and three have already been written, but these will be substantially revised before publication.

Before having written volume one, however, I wrote a book-length preface to the project, which I put on hold until I could finish volume one. This book, entitled The Networked Mind: Artificial Minds, Cognitive Science, and Post-Structuralist Philosophy, is essentially complete, and needs minor editorial work. This book will be sent out to solicit publication as soon as I send the final manuscript proofs to Zer0 for volume one.

Furthermore, plans are in the works for additional volumes entitled The Networked Image: Lacan, Deleuze, Film, and Beyond, a short book based on a popular class I teach at Pratt, and a series of essays based on many of my mini-article blog posts (see the sidebar of this site), entitled Nodularities: Towards a Networked Theory of Culture. Currently I plan to put these shorter works together before finishing volumes two and three of the primary networks trilogy.

For updates on works in progress, see the links on the sidebar. For more on my recent thoughts, please check out my blog, as well as the list of mini-articles listed on the sidebar, categorized by topics. Most posts are crossposted at the blog for Orbis Mediologicus – The Project for Mediology at Pratt Institute, one of the primary projects I am involved in at Pratt, and the eventual precursor of the M.A. program we will be offering in Media Studies in the near future. Both of these sites can be accessed from the menu on the right.

For more information on these and related projects, please contact me at chris962x@gmail.com.