MarkHansen teaches cultural theory and comparative media studies in the Program inLiterature and the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at DukeUniversity where he is also affiliated with the Program in Information Science+ Information Society, Arts of the Moving Image and the Visual StudiesInitiative. Hansen is author of EmbodyingTechnesis: Technology Beyond Writing (Michigan 2000), New Philosophy for New Media (MIT 2004), and Bodies in Code (Routledge 2006), as well as numerous essays oncultural theory, contemporary literature, and media.  He has co-edited (with Taylor Carman) The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty.  Two volumes have recently appeared: Critical Terms for Media Studies (Chicago 2010), a resource for thestudy of media, co-edited with W.J.T. Mitchell, and Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Cybernetics(Duke 2009), a volume, co-edited with Bruce Clarke, exploring the continuingrelevance of second-order cybernetics in our highly complexified contemporarytechnoscientific culture. Hansen is currently completing a study of thetechnicity of time-consciousness that explores the transduction of time andmedia in relation to the computational and neuroscientific revolutions.