David Cecchetto

Media & Culture, Technology in Practice

DepartmentCommunication & Media Studies (York)

Areas of ExpertiseCritical theory, Digital humanities, New media, Philosophy of technology, Sound studies

https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/dcecchet/

David Cecchetto studies critical digital theory, sound, and experimental media. He has published widely, including the monographs Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture (co-authored with The Occulture; Bloomsbury, 2017), Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and Listening in the Afterlife of Data (Duke UP, 2022). He is a Series Editor of the para-academic Catalyst book series (Noxious Sector Press) and is Co-Editor of the Proximities: Experiments in Nearness book series (University of Minnesota Press).

Recent publications:

Cecchetto, D.. (2022). Listening in the afterlife of data : aesthetics, pragmatics, and incommunication. Duke University Press.

Cecchetto, D., Couroux, M., Hiebert, T., & Priest, E. (2017). Ludic dreaming: How to listen away from contemporary technoculture. Bloomsbury Academic.

Recent ComCult Courses

CC8839 Sound Studies

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2021 - Campbell Kramer; Major Research Paper: Public and Ordinary Bad Feelings: Neoliberal Depression and Its Art

2021 - Sam Shaftoe; Thesis: Before and After Nature: Temporality and Landscape in Toronto's Early Urban Greenspace