Publications
Books
- Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds. MIT Press, May 2017.
- What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing. MIT Press, March 2017.
- Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer, William Morrow, September 2014.
- Ventures, Visions, Escape Velocities, by Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich, December 2017
Non-Commercial Anthologies
- Space Futures (NASA)
- Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich, eds. Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures. Center for Science and the Imagination, December 2017.
- Overview (Knowledge Enterprise Development, ASU)
- Michael G. Bennet, Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn, eds. Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere. Center for Science and the Imagination, August 2017.
- Tomorrow Project (Intel)
- Ed Finn and G. Pascal Zachary, eds. Living Tomorrow. Intel Corporation, 2015.
- Ed Finn and G. Pascal Zachary, eds. Journeys Through Time and Space. Intel Corporation, 2015.
- Ed Finn and G. Pascal Zachary, eds. Dark Futures. Intel Corporation, 2014.
- Ed Finn and G. Pascal Zachary, eds. The Future—Powered by Fiction. Intel Corporation, 2014.
- Ed Finn, ed. “Green Dreams” section of Cautions, Dreams & Curiosities: A Tomorrow Project Anthology, 2013.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- “Monster Mythos: Frankenstein as Network Text.” The Rightful Place of Science: Frankenstein. Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, October 2017
- Michael Simeone, Advaith Gundavajhala Venkata Koundinya, Anandh Ravi Kumar and Ed Finn. “Towards a Poetics of Strangeness: Experiments in Classifying Language of Technological Novelty.” Journal of Cultural Analytics September 8, 2017.
- Peter Nagy, Ruth Wylie, Joey Eschrich, and Ed Finn. “Why Frankenstein is a Stigma Among Scientists.” Science and Engineering Ethics, 2017.
- Megan K. Halpern, Jathan Sadowski, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, David H. Guston. “Stitching Together Creativity and Responsibility: Interpreting Frankenstein Across Disciplines.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society Vol. 36, no. 1, 2016.
- “Field Notes from the Future of Publishing,” electronic book review, October 5 2014.
- “Revenge of the Nerd: Junot Díaz and the Networks of American Literary Imagination.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 7.1, Summer 2013.
- “Becoming Yourself: David Foster Wallace and the Afterlife of Reception.” The Legacy of David Foster Wallace: Critical and Creative Assessments, eds. Lee Konstantinou and Samuel Cohen, University of Iowa Press, 2012.
Modified version of above has been published as:
“Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception.” Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab #3. September 15, 2011.
- “New Literary Cultures: Mapping the Digital Networks of Toni Morrison” From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Anouk Lang, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Digital images from the chapter:
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Selected Popular Media
- “Autonomous Vehicles and the Car Cult.” MIT Technology Review. June 26, 2018.
- “Frankenstein Has Become a True Monster.” (with David Guston). Wall Street Journal. December 29, 2017.
- “Art by Algorithm.” Aeon, September 27, 2017.
- “Can Coding the Brain Save or Destroy Us?” CNN Opinion. April 12, 2017.
- “Facebook Trending story: The Wizard of Oz algorithm.” CNN, May 14, 2016.
- “Algorithms Aren’t Like Spock.” Slate, February 26, 2016.
- “The Internet of Slow Things.” Slate, September 21, 2015.
- “The Inspiration Drought: Why Our Science Fiction Needs New Dreams.” Slate, September 16, 2014.
- “What if Computers Know You Better Than You Know Yourself?” Slate. March 4, 2014.
- “Thought Experiments: Dreaming Up a Center for Science and the Imagination.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. October-November 2013.
Curriculum Vita
- Complete life of publications are available on my CV