David Golumbia
Associate Professor
dgolumbia@vcu.edu
(804) 827-8331
Hibbs Hall 324D
Education
BA Oberlin College
PhD University of Pennsylvania
Research/Teaching Focus
Digital studies; contemporary American literature and culture; literary theory, philosophy and linguistics
Books
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2016.
The Cultural Logic of Computation. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009.
Recent/Selected Publications
“‘Correlationism’: The Dogma That Never Was.” boundary 2 43:2 (May 2016): 1-25.
“The Science of Language and the Language of Science: Chomsky’s Cartesianism.” diacritics 43:1 (2015): 38-63.
“Death of a Discipline” Invited contribution to “In the Shadows of the Digital Humanities.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 25:1 (2014): 156-176.
“High-Frequency Trading: Networks of Wealth and the Concentration of Power.” Invited contribution. Social Semiotics 23:2 (2013). 278–299.
“The Future of New Media: Embodying Kurzweil’s Singularity in Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, and Gamer.” Angharad N. Valdivia, ed., The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, volume VI: Kelly Gates, ed., Media Studies Futures. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2013. 479–502.
“Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media.” The Renewal of Cultural Studies. Ed. Paul Smith. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2011. 83–92.
“Minimalism Is Functionalism.” Language Sciences 32.1 (2010): 28–42.
“Games Without Play: Deconstructing World of Warcraft.” New Literary History 40.1 (2009): 179–204.
Faculty photo by Patrick Scott Vickers – 2014
