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Doug Stark
Doug Stark is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Doug’s dissertation focuses on the military, industrial and artistic implementation of games and play in the post-war to mid-century United States. He explores how the archive on cybernetic discourse, behavioral management and aleatory aesthetics not only reveals an enduring epistemological ground for computer games, gamification and forms of experimental art as we know them today, but also how games have long been media to think with and through. Otherwise, his research and teaching are concerned with twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, film and new media with an emphasis on the political and ethical implications of technological mediation. He has forthcoming and published work on Afrofuturism, neoliberal gamification and videogame literature in Extrapolation (2020), Playing the Field: Video Games and American Studies (2019) and Encyclopedia of Video Games (forthcoming) respectively.