Aden Evens
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of English & Creative Writing
Affiliated Faculty, Program in Digital Musics
Affiliated Faculty, Comparative Literature
Area of Expertise
digital studies,
poststructuralist theory,
philosophy of formal systems,
avant-garde and improvisatory musics/sound studies,
math and literature,
psychoanalysis
Biography
I research across a variety of disciplines, including digital studies, philosophy, mathematics, music, and literature. My teaching focuses on digital technologies and culture and includes forays into composition, post-structuralist theory, music, and literature. As a teacher, my chief aim is to encourage students to think critically, which turns out to be harder than it sounds.
Education
A.B. Harvard University
M.A. McGill University
Ph.D. McGill University
Taught Courses
Publications
The Digital and Its Discontents, University of Minnesota Press (2024).
"Digital Sound, Thought," in Sound Thinking, Bloomsbury Academic, (forthcoming 2017).
Logic of the Digital, Bloomsbury Academic Press (2015).
"Touch in the Abstract," SubStance 40:3 (2011), iss. 126.
"Web 2.0 and the Ontology of the Digital," Digital Humanities Quarterly :http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ (2012).
"The Logic of Digital Gaming" in Mechademia 6 . Frenchy Lunning (ed.), University of Minnesota Press (Winter 2011).
"Icon Icon," inflexions :http://www.inflexions.org (Fall 2010, Issue 4: Transversal Fields of Experience), http://www.inflexions.org. 12 pages.
"Digital Ontology and Example" in Deleuze, Science, and the Force of the Virtual , University of Minnesota Press (Spring 2010). 169–202.
Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience, University of Minnesota Press (2005).
Works in Progress
A Mathematics of Philosophy. A study of the ways in which mathematics is invoked in philosophy, literature, and arts for non-mathematical purposes.
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