ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

What I’ve written here is a product of countless conversations, debates, and discussions, a product of a community of scholars, colleagues, and friends, without whom this book would not be possible. Of course, as so often accompanies similar acknowledgments, all limitations of the preceding pages are my own. I want to particularly thank Gregg Flaxman, who first suggested I investigate the history of Einfühlung and empathy, providing me with many of the primary sources I used in this book on this topic. The chapter on the E-Meter only emerged after Lori Emerson was kind enough to show me many of the artifacts held at the Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, Colorado. I was invited by maya livio, while she was curator of the MAL, to serve as one of the Lab’s residents in 2018, where I worked with the Lab’s E-Meters and performed research that would lead to chapter 4. I am infinitely grateful to Gregg, Lori, and maya.

All of the following people contributed in some way to this project, abstractly or concretely, directly or indirectly, during the time I was working on The Affect Lab : César Albarrán Torres, Hava Aldouby, Tom Apperley, Brooke Belisle, Alex Bevan, Andy Binder, Ronisha Browdy, Helen Burgess, Nic Carah, Alice Cheng, Chris Chesher, Lily Cho, Kathy Cleland, Liz Craig, Deanna Dannels, Adriana de Souza e Silva, Fernanda Duarte, Jens Eder, Robbie Fordyce, Paul Fyfe, Vicki Gallagher, Margaret Gibson, Gerard Goggin, Marsha Gordon, Sushma Griffin, Leon Gurevitch, Atilla Hallsby, Julian Hanich, Mark Hayward, Larissa Hjorth, James J. Hodge, Ingrid Hoelzl, Rolien Hoyng, Jonas Ingvarsson, Jessica Jameson, Melissa Johnson, Andrew Johnston, Tero Karppi, Charlotte Kent, Maren Koehler, Derek Kompare, Scott Krzych, Nicole Lee, Jennifer Lieberman, Astrid Lorange, Alessandro Ludovico, John Morillo, Timothy Neale, Elizabeth Nelson, Jeremy Packer, Jussi Parikka, David Parisi, Will Partin, Simon Penny, Stacey Pigg, David Rieder, Craig Robertson, Lynsey Romo, Paul Roquet, Miriam Ross, Ian Rothwell, Tony Sampson, Sarah Sharma, Yiğit Soncul, Jane Stadler, Jason Swarts, Nick Taylor, Armond Towns, Son Vivienne, Rebecca Walsh, Steve Wiley, Jack Wilson, Emily Winderman, Greg Wise, Liam Cole Young, and Ken Zagacki. Thank you all.

I’d also like to thank the students I’ve advised or otherwise worked with during this time. So many of the real benefits of intellectual life come from the ideas and provocations offered by our students, and I’ve gained so much from all of the following (and from so many not listed here, too). During this time, I’m grateful to have advised Dina Abdel-Mageed, Tharaa Bayazid, Jeff Bruinsma, Mally Dietrich, Chloe Higginbotham, Mai Ibrahim, Shelby Lombardo, Ryan McGrady, Asa McMullen, Juniper Nie, Malcolm Ogden, Ben Ridgeway, Adam Suddarth, Bethany Tillerson, and I learned so much from those whose committees I’ve been on, Aaron Dial, Charles Ecenbarger, Malaka Friedman, Ragan Glover-Rijkse, Alex Haire, Robin Holloway, Chris Kampe, Chance Lachowitzer, Paola Mejia, Anne Njathi, Sugantha Ramachandran, Grant Rivers, Laura Roberts, Marat Sadana, Madison Schmalzer, Kashian Scrivens, Bryce Stout, Nora Suren, and Luna Vanaman.

At the University of Minnesota Press, I’d like to thank Pieter Martin, who has maintained an incredible level of support and enthusiasm for this project from the first time we met, along with Anne Carter, Eric Lundgren, and everyone else at the Press who played a part in producing this book. I’d also like to thank the anonymous readers, whose helpful and enthusiastic comments were instrumental in revisions of this manuscript.

I was invited to present some of the research leading to this book to audiences at Western Sydney University’s Institute for Culture and Society, where I was invited by Timothy Neale; the conference The Conquest of Ubiquity: Informational Imaginaries of Everyday Life before Ubiquitous Computing, held at York University and the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, where I was invited by Mark Hayward and Craig Robertson; the Archaeologies of Media and Technology Research Group at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, where I was invited by Yiğit Soncul; and the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion (LIR) and Centre of Digital Humanities, University of Gothenburg, where I was invited by Jonas Ingvarsson. Versions of these chapters were also presented at the Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conferences at the University of Tampere and at the University of Sydney; the Knowledge/Culture/Economy Conference at the University of Western Sydney; the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art; the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference at the University of Melbourne; the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conventions in Atlanta and Chicago; and the Interrogating Media Devices Symposium at the University of Queensland. I would like to thank the organizers of these events and conferences, many of whom I’ve mentioned above, along with the audiences of these talks.

Most significantly, I’d like to thank Katherine Guinness. Her brilliance, creativity, and intellectual talents continuously amaze me. The arguments of this book derive from years of the most meaningful collaboration and partnership I could hope for, one I imagine will go on forever, beyond the limits of this world.

Research for this book was made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant FT-269862-20. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this book do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.