Adam Rothstein is an insurgent archivist and writes about politics, media, and technology wherever he can get a signal. He is most interested in the canons of history and prediction, the so-called “Future-Weird”, and the unstable ramifications of today’s cultural technology. He tweets as @interdome, and posts ephemera at interdome.tumblr.com. His writing website is POSZU.
Selected Publications
Adam has contributed to:
Rhizome, The New Inquiry, The Atlantic Tech, The State, The Magazine, 50 Cyborgs, and Longshot Magazine.
Regular blogger at The State.
2013
“The Pleasant/Unpleasant Dynamic” – Unpleasant Design
“The Shape of Shaping Things to Come” – Best of Rhizome 2012 – Collection Volume
Guide to Future Present Archetypes – Ebook of Essays
2012
50 Cultural Perturbations – Novella.
“On the Natural History of Surveillance” - Rhizome
“Satellites of History” - The State
“Killer Mag” – The New Inquiry
“Cascadian Drone Ballads: An Introduction” – POSZU
The Portland Occupier - Served as Point-of-Contact.
2011
Light on Fire - Novel.
Speciation – Diagram Book.
Apopheniac Communiques - Zine.
“Drone Ethnography” - Rhizome
“Enter the Hutong” – POSZU
Border Town Design Salon – Foreign Correspondent.
2010
Cannibalism - Novella.
LiquidSeedMossMachine - Novella.
2009
Scab Suite - Novella.
Presentations
2012
Arse Electronika, San Francisco, CA: “Multi-Profile, Platform Based Socio-Sexual Performance Constituted thru Polyamorous Relationships”
Weird-Shit Con, Portland, OR: “Notes on a New Politic”
Public Engagement, Portland, OR: “Notes on Research into the Zwischenzug Factory” (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
Law and Disorder, Portland, OR: “The Role of Writing and Research in Developing Revolutionary Movements – Panel Participant”
Occupy Solidarity Social Forum, Olympia, WA: “Anarchist Process and Occupied Media”
2011
The Non-Human in Anthropology, Prague, CZ: “Junk Mail Cyborgs” (with Rosalynn Rothstein)
Education
BA 2005 Religious Studies Grinnell College
MA 2007 Philosophy The New School for Social Research
Selected Exhibitions (Solo Shows Marked With *)
2012
*Untitled Product, Spaceworks, Tacoma, WA
*YX, Re:Vision Gallery at SCRAP, Portland, OR
Lost Valley Installation, Eugene, OR
Northwest Blue Recess Installation, Bellingham, WA
2011
Speciation, Billboard Art Project, Corona, CA
Bordertown Group Show, Detroit Design Festival, Detroit, MI
*Tunnel Space, Red Rover Gallery, Portland, OR
*Bohemian Warehouse Installation, Portland, OR
2010
Masks of Incognito, Re:Vision Gallery at SCRAP, Portland, OR
*please treat things as you would like them to be treated, Project Space Two, Salem, Oregon
2009
Summer Print Show, Bamboo Grove Gallery, Portland, Oregon