Dr Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

Biography

Bernard is an historian of technology and media theorist. He has taught in Paris, New Haven, Coventry, and Evanston.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Media theory
• French theory
• Generative AI
• Screen studies
• Environmental humanities

Teaching

I teach on the history and theory of digital media, as well as topics in environmental media studies and science studies.

Expertise and Public Engagement

I have worked as a curator for organisations including the Haus der Kulturen der Welt on topics such as the Anthropocene.

Selected publications 

• Geoghegan, BD. Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. Duke University Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-1-4780-1900-8.
• Geoghegan, BD. “The Bitmap is the Territory: How Digital Formats Render Global Positions.” MLN 136, December 2021, 1093-1113. doi:10.1353/mln.2021.0081.
• Geoghegan, BD. “Orientalism and Informatics: Alterity from the Chess-Playing Turk to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.” Ex-Position 43, June 2020, pp. 45–90. DOI: 10.6153/EXP.202006_(43).0004.
• Geoghegan, BD. “An Ecology of Operations: Vigilance, Radar, and the Birth of the Computer Screen.” Representations 147, no. 1, Aug. 2019, pp. 59–95. DOI: 10.1177/0952695119864241.
• Geoghegan, BD. “After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory.” Theory, Culture & Society 30, no. 6 (November 2013): 66–82. DOI: 10.1177/0263276413488962.