PhD, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, 2016

Software Studies, Hardware/Infrastructure Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Film Studies, Aesthetics and Avant-Gardes, Critical Digital Humanities, Cultural Studies 

Andrew Lison is a media theorist whose research focuses on the material and cultural impact of digital mediation. His first monograph, 100% Utilization: Computation and Labor After Moore’s Law (MIT, 2026), considers computing hardware as physical infrastructure to explore how an end to exponential growth in processing power could affect the balance between automation and un(der)employment central to a globalized political economy. His essay “Hardware Standardization and State-Socialist Piracy: The Global Reach of the Zilog Z80” won the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board’s 2024 Best Paper Award for articles in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. He is currently working on a short book revisiting the turn away from humanism in critical discourse and a second monograph, tentatively titled New Media at the End of History, examining the rise of digital multimedia alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall.