Essays, Criticism
SELECTED ESSAYS
“The Celebrity and the Communist,” [On China Mieville and Keanu Reeve’s unlikely collaboration], Wired, July/August, 2024.
“Diagnosing Resistance,” [On Aaron Bushnell'], Bookforum, Spring 2024.
“The Old Man’s Back Again,” [On the Return to Freud and John Forrester], Chronicle of Higher Education, September 26, 2023.
“There is a life here,” [on Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022)] n+1, December 12, 2022.
“Composite Case,” [on the fate of the children of psychoanalysts] Parapraxis, December 2022.
“I’m Baby,” [on digital reproduction in the metaverse] The Baffler, July 2022.
“The Victim Cloud,” [on gullibility in the golden age of scams] Harper’s Magazine, July 2022.
“Unfree Associations,” [on parasitic whiteness, on and off the couch] n+1, March 15, 2022.
“Therapy with a Human Face,” [on the feminization of therapy] Dissent Magazine, January 10, 2022.
“The Immune Sequence,” [on analog kids], Logic Magazine, September 23, 2021.
“Behind Closed Doors: The Couples Therapy Entertainment Complex,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, June 14, 2021.
“Family Scanning,” [on surveillance of babies and caregivers] Real Life Magazine, February 22, 2021.
RECENT CRITICISM
“We took care of the network,“ [on Tosquelles and Art Brut], The New York Review of Books, August 17, 2024.
“Give up and go,” [on Adam Phillips], Bookforum, Summer 2024.
“The Woman Behind Freud’s First Case Study,” The New Republic, Summer 2024.
“A Memoir of Contested Illness That Takes on the Legacy of Hysteria,” The New Yorker, September 13, 2023.
“Where Egos Dare,” [On Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians], Bookforum September/October/November 2023.
“Death’s Work: On Jacqueline Rose’s The Plague,” Parapraxis Issue 02: Repair, Summer 2023.
“In Theory Anyway: A Review of Lauren Berlant’s On The Inconvenience of Other People,” Bookforum, September/October/November 2022.
“In the Flickering Light: A Review of Lynn Spigel’s TV Snapshots,” New York Review of Books, July 26, 2022.
SELECTED SHORTER ESSAYS (op-eds, etc).
“Who’s Listening When You Call a Crisis Hotline?” with Yana Calou, Slate, April 1, 2022.
“Therapy via Zoom Could Have Made Therapy Available for All—It Didn’t,” The Guardian, August 3 2021 [print and digital].
“The United States Has Never Tried a Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health Care,” Made by History, The Washington Post, July 27, 2021.
“Therapists Are Doing Sessions in Locked Bathrooms While Patients Call in from their Cars,” Slate, April 10, 2020.
OTHER ACADEMIC WORK
EDITED BOOKS & SPECIAL ISSUES
Reconsidering John C. Lilly (edited volume), co-edited with Jeffrey Mathias, under contract, (MIT Press), expected 2025.
Special Issue on Media Histories of Care, Feminist Media Histories, co-edited with Olivia Banner (Winter, 2023).
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Medium Inside: Psychoanalysts’ Media Theory of Everyday Life,” “In Focus” Special Section on “Quotidian Media Studies,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Volume 62, Issue 04, 2023 pp. 161-166.
“Beyond Diagnosis: The Hotline & State Apparatus in The Slender Thread,” special issue on “Diagnosing America,” American Literary History. Volume 35, Issue 03, 2023, pp 1123–1131.
“No Touching: Boundary Violation and Psychoanalytic Solidarity,” special issue on “Solidarity & Psychoanalysis,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 33.2 and 33.3 (July and December).
“Melancholic Media: Virtual Reality, Trauma, Wish Fulfillment,” special issue on “The Media of Trauma,” Media, Culture & Society.
“THIS IS WOMENSPACE: USENET and the Fight for a Digital Backroom, 1983-1986,” Technology & Culture. Vol. 63, No. 3. July 2022.
“Kikika no enkaku serapi (Teletherapy in crisis).” Translated by Saaya Yokoyama and Mayuko Suzuki. Japanese Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry. Vol. 21, No. 1. [Japanese] (Spring 2022)
“Hot and Cool Mothers,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 32, no. 3 (December, 2021). Winner of the Inaugural Timothy Shary prize for Best Essay published in Children's and Youth Media from The Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2022.
“Freud’s Séance,” American Imago 75, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 53-65.
“War Games: Mourning Loss Through Play” in Shared Traumas, Silent Loss, Public and Private Mourning, edited by Lene Auestad (London: Karnac Books 2017), 1-15. Republished by Routledge in 2018.
EDITOR-REFEREED ARTICLES
“Empathy,” Keyword for A New AI Lexicon Project, AI Now Institute, September 17, 2021
“Care,” Keyword for A New AI Lexicon Project, AI Now Institute, June 22, 2021
“The Third Choice: Suicide Hotlines, Psychiatry, and the Police,” special issue on Digital Psychiatry, Somatosphere (November, 2020).