Paul Michael
Privateer
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Contact Information:
LL 643B
Phone: (480) 965-6776
E-mail: private@asu.edu
Paul Michael Privateer studies the relationships between culture, science, technology, social ideologies and globalization. His interest lies in bioinformatics, nanoscience, information, digital and medical technologies, and evolutionary sociobiology. He was an invited visiting professor at Stanford University's School of Modern Thought and MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society in 2002-2003. He serves as the North American editor for the British Journal of Education Technology (Oxford University) and works as a senior Fortune 500 management consultant.
Courses:
FMS/110: New Media-New Worlds FMS/Humanities 300: Media and Culture: Ideas, Images, Ideologies and Information Eng/FMS 394: Science Fiction and Films FMS/Humanities 450: Technology and Culture FMS/Humanities 451: Globalization and Media Studies Humanities/FMS 350 Virtual Reality and the Culture of Cyberspace and Eng/FMS 394: Science Fiction and Films.
Courses under development:
Biotechnology and Ideologies of Flesh Circuit Bodies; Studies in NanoCulture; Globalization and The Postmodern Technical Culture; Deconstructing the Digital; and Science, Technology and Culture
Publications:
Dr. Privateer's latest book, Inventing Intelligence: A Social History of Smart (Blackwell) was published in December 2005. He has also written Romantic Voices: Identity and Ideology in British Literature (University of Georgia Press, 1991. His latest book project has the working title of The Virtual and The Viral: Studies in the Bio-Ideology of Postmodern Culture.
Recent articles include "Postmodernism and Virtual Culture: An Anthropology of Replicant Systems, "International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Fall 2005; “Circuits, Simulations, and Viruses” A Case Study of Media Brandscapes,” Applied Semotics, May 2005; “Transdisciplinary Programs and The Future of Higher Education,” Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence, October 2004; and "Academic Technology and The Future of Higher Education," Journal of Higher Education, Winter, 1999.