CMP alum Kyle Parry (Film and Visual Studies, 2015) has released his first book, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, through University of Minnesota Press. In the book, Parry argues that assembly is one of the most powerful and pervasive cultural forms in the digital era.
According to Judith Butler of University of California, Berkeley, “Kyle Parry’s remarkable book offers an eclectic theory of assembly, shifting the focus from political theory to aesthetic and media practices. This is a wide-ranging and original work that keeps shifting angles to produce the sense of vibrant, if problematic, new constellations of the various assemblies that pervade contemporary life. Mindful of both the progressive and reactionary forms that assemblies can take, Parry probes the intensified circulation of digital assemblies in all their ambivalence.”
Kyle is currently associate professor history of art and visual culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
