School of Humanities and Sciences
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Bryan Nelson Norton
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNorton's first book, Planetary Idealism: The Technics of Nature in German Romanticism, is under advance contract with Stanford University Press. Planetary Idealism investigates how a set of poets and philosophers begin addressing the shifting relations between humans, technical media, and nature in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and start of the nineteenth. During this time, writers such as Novalis, Schelling, Goethe, Hölderlin, and Hegel turn to natural history, poetic experimentation, and Kant’s interrogation of a “technic of nature” in an effort to develop alternatives mode of inhabiting the planet at the outset of the Anthropocene.
His second project, Salt, explores the vital role of an everyday mineral in the making of modernity. The book uncovers the diverse and surprising ways in which salt has come to form contemporary ideas about nature, culture, and even politics around the globe. Currently under review, the book explores the mineral’s centrality to a number of formats and contexts, from lithium extraction and salt tourism in Bolivia to the rise to fame of celebrity chef Nusret Gökçem, aka “Salt Bae.” Drawing particular attention to the mineral basis of digital media and infrastructure, Salt raises vital questions about how modern life has been composed, consumed, and is even dissolved.
Norton is also co-editing a volume of essays on the late philosopher of technology, Bernard Stiegler. -
Kaitlynn Norton
Master of Arts Student in History, admitted Autumn 2023
Manuscript Asst, Special CollectionsBioKaitlynn Norton is an MA student in the field of Early Modern Europe. She earned her BA in History from UCLA, where she completed research on topics such as contemporary responses to witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and the social repercussions of the Black Death. Now her research focuses on court culture and etiquette in Medieval to Early Modern Britain.
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Miguel Novelo Cruz
Lecturer
BioExperimental media artist, filmmaker, and cultural arts programmer who graduated in 2013 from the Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI in Madrid, and recently graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA degree in Film and minor in Art and Technology (2018).
In this past years Miguel has exhibited pieces and short films in cities such as Paris (La Jeune Martyre - Mex-Parismental 2015) , Mexico city (Mención Honorífica en el concurso universitario nacional 2015 - PRMR) , Tijuana (Concurso Nacional de Video Experimental 2014-2016 - Dualidad - PRMR - Telémocion 2), Madrid ( Dualidad -VIDEOTALENTOS, 2014), Morelia, (La Marea - FICM, 2018) San Francisco (ON LOC, Marchantes 2018) and many more. -
Ethan Nowak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPhilosophy of language, social and political philosophy, East Asian philosophy
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Dimitrios (Dimitris) Ntounis
Ph.D. Student in Physics, admitted Summer 2022
Ph.D. Minor, Computer ScienceCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsExperimental Particle Physics, High Energy Physics, Future Colliders
