Tony Sampson

Bio

Tony D Sampson is a critical theorist and philosopher of media technology. His publications include The Spam Book, coedited with Jussi Parikka (Hampton Press, 2009), Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture (University of Minnesota Press, Dec 2016) and Affect and Social Media: Emotion, Mediation, Anxiety and Contagion, coedited with Darren Ellis and Stephen Maddison (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018). Tony hosts the Affect and Social Media conferences in East London. He is also a co-founder of the public engagement initiatives the Cultural Engine Research Group at UEL and Club Critical Theory (based in Southend, Essex).