Newitz looks at representations of serial killers, mad doctors, the undead, cyborgs, and unfortunates mutated by their involvement with the mass media industry. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the unfettered lust for profit, fictional monsters act out the problems with an economic system that seems designed to eat people whole. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. She was also the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, and has a Ph.D. She is also the co-editor of the essay collection She’s Such A Geek (Seal Press), and author of Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press).įormerly, Annalee was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a lecturer in American Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the founding editor of io9, was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, and is currently an editor-at-large for Ars Technica, as well as a freelancer for magazines and newspapers.Īnnalee’s nonfiction has appeared in Slate, T he New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
She is also the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Doubleday and Anchor), and is currently working on another novel for Tor, as well as a nonfiction book for W.W. Annalee Newitz first novel, Autonomous, was released by Tor in September 2017, and is a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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