Jackie Orr

Jackie Orr teaches and writes in the fields of cultural politics, contemporary theory, and critical technoscience studies. Her book, Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder (Duke, 2006) narrates the entangled histories of militarization, informatics, and technoscientific desire animating the language of psychic disease. For the past 20 years, she has experimented with performance and textual/visual collage as alternative methods for re-making public memory and insurgent knowledges. Her recent performance piece, “Slow Disaster at the Digital Edge,” explores the deep time of catastrophe and the BP oil spill. She is an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University.