- Associate Department Head
- Associate Professor
- Phone: (979) 862-3556
- Email: apilsch@tamu.edu
- Office: LAAH 417
- Document: CV
Research Areas
- Theory
- Science Fiction
- Digital Humanities
- Rhetoric
- Information Studies
- Critical AI
- Digital Rhetoric
- Science
Research Interests
Research Areas
- Theory
- Science Fiction
- Digital Humanities
- Rhetoric
- Science
- Information Studies
- Critical AI
- Digital Rhetoric
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2012
- M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 2007
- B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
Awards & Honors
- 2017 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize for Transhumanism
Selected Publications
Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia. The University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation.
Andrew Pilsch argues that transhumanism’s utopian rhetoric actively imagines radical new futures for the species and its habitat. Pilsch situates contemporary transhumanism within the longer history of a rhetorical mode he calls “evolutionary futurism” that unifies diverse texts, philosophies, and theories of science and technology that anticipate a radical explosion in humanity’s cognitive, physical, and cultural potentialities.
Other Publications
- “The Ethos of Mr. Robot.” Present Tense 7.1 (2018): n.p.
- “Abducting Code, Translating the Future: Transpilers and the Implementation of JavaScript’s Future.” Amodern 8 (“Translation-Machination” special issue, ed. Christine Mitchell & Rita Raley) (2018): n.p.
- “Invoking Darkness: Skotison, Scalar Derangement, and Inhuman Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 50.3 (2017): 336-355.
- “Insect Capital.” New American Notes Online (NANO) 8 (2015).
- “Self-Help Supermen: The Politics of Fan Utopias in World War II-Era Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 41.3 (2014): 524-542.
