Experience

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  Eastern kentucky university

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1998

  Assistant professor of english

  I was a tenure-track Assistant Professor until four external colleagues caught a senior EKU colleague Andrew Harnack plagiarizing my work, as well as the work of Janice Walker. Unfortunately, Harnack not only sat on my tenure and review committee, but was the author of the plagiarism policy of EKU, and managed to get his plagiarism of Walker published in the 1997 edition of intellectual property and plagiarism expert Professor Andrea Lundsford's (Ohio State U.; Stanford U) extremely lucrative _St. Martin's English Handbook_ . The consequences for trying to make this visible were death threats against myself and my family, and blackmail attempts, an attempt to fire me, and continued harassment even after I moved laterally to another institution. I learned further from former EKU colleague David Elias that Harnack had been caught plagiarizing 15 years earlier and was given the task of rewriting the plagiarism guidelines as punishment. Anyone interested in employment at Eastern Kentucky University should contact me. แสดงน้อยลง

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  Self-employed

  Jan 2010 - now

  Writer-scholar

  AG3-Online: The Third International Arakawa and Gins Architecture and Philosophy Conference March 12-26, 2010; Concluding celebrations, Barnard College/Columbia U., (April 30th), Solomon Guggenheim Museum (May 1). 1st completely digital global academic conference ever. Conference Co-Director, and Three Papers:"Francisco Varela's Neurophenomenology and Embodied Cognition in the Architectural Theories of Arakawa and Gins.""Terminological Junctions" in the Writings of Arakawa and Gins in Light of Gilles Deleuze's 'Shocks of Thought."Inaugural Keynote--Guggenheim Museum, May 1, 2010:"Duchamp's Relationship to Emergence, and Arakawa and Gins' Relationship to Embodied Cognition.""Jazz Improvisation and the Architectural Theories ofArakawa and Gins: Towards a Theory of Projective Apprehension."Third International Conference on Gilles Deleuze:Amsterdam, July 12-14, 2010."Jazz Improvisation and Collective Intelligence: From Embodiedto Distributed Cognition."SEP-PEP (Society for European Philosophy) ConferenceManchester Metropolitan UniversityManchester, UK, Sept 4-7, 2012“What Does Ergonomics Have to Do With Guitar Design: Fretboard Cognition between Embodiment and Collective Intelligence.”The Center For Transformative Media, Parsons-The New School of Design, Dec. 2, 2013l:“From Projective Apprehension to Proprio-Sentience: Embodied AND Distributed Cognition During Jazz Improvisation.”University of Utrecht, Society for European Philosophy, September 4, 2014 “A Workshop On Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes of Cognition During Jazz Improvisation in Light of Recent Work on Cognitive Capitalism.”The New Centre For Research and Practice, April 4, 2015: Online Video Lecture:https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16&v=aNpkojJuabE“From Projective Apprehension to Proprio-Sentience: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Embodied CognitiveProcesses Involved in Jazz Improvisation.”University of Chicago, The Second Biennal Performance Philosophy Conference, April 10, 2015. แสดงน้อยลง

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  Self-employed musician

  Jan 2010 - now

  Jazz guitarist, arranger and composer

  Currently practicing and playing jazz in the Pittsburgh area.

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  Self employed writer/information architect

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2023

  Writer

  I consult on writing projects, as well as multimedia, interactive design and information architecture.

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  Center for transformative media, new school/parsons

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Visiting fellow in art and cognition

  Researching and writing about the relationship between embodied and distributed cognition during jazz improvisation; and, about cognition and new media, with respect to aesthetics and pedagogy. I will be giving lectures and workshops, collaborating with others on research, and publishing articles/pamphlets and books.

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  Global center for advanced studies

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

  Graduate faculty

  I team-taught a colloquia on philosophy, politics and the future of democracy this fall, with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, among others. In the Spring Term, I will begin offering courses on the aesthetics and politics of cognition, and on the science of emergence and its implications for art, philosophy and culture.

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  New centre for research and practice

  Jan 2015 - now

  Research associate
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  Center for discursive inquiry, school of criticism, cal arts

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

  Researcher

  Affliated scholar, and guest lecturer on jazz and cognition.

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  Foreign objekt

  Jan 2022 - Jan 2025

  Instructor
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  The new centre for research & practice

  Jan 2025 - now

  Retired, but active