Johannah Rodgers is a writer, artist, and educator whose work engages creatively and critically with the social, technical, environmental, and economic histories of inscription practices across media. She is the author of Technology: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press, 2014), the Founding Director of the First Year Writing Program at the New York City College of Technology, where she was Associate Professor in Communications and Media Studies, and a member of The Critical Carbon Computing Collective. Her “Not A Book” project was part of the “Post-Human” exhibit at the 2021 SLSA/ELO Conference and her Word Drawings were included in the 2020 “Practice Sharing” collection of Language-Based Artistic Research. Her projects, essays, fictions, and book reviews have been published in Interfaces, Nat.Brut, Fence, Bookforum, and The Brooklyn Rail. Her multimedia projects include the digital fiction project DNA (mimeograph/The Brooklyn Rail), At, Or To Take Regret: Some Reflections on Grammars, What My Computer “Sees”, and the Excel Drawing Series. She is currently working on a book about the history of machine literacies and their relationships to philosophies and pedagogies of human literacies in the United States.
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