Autofocus Books
The nature machine!
Key Metrics
- Tyler Gillespie
- Autofocus Books
- Paperback
- 9781957392158
- 8 X 6 X 0.28 inches
- 0.36 pounds
- Poetry > LGBTQ+
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Since 2020, Tyler Gillespie has spent a lot of time online and in other landscapes devoid of humans IRL. While undergoing quarantine with his grandmother in Florida, he began expanding his writing practice with new forms of media expression, going as far as recording snippets of a comedy album and creating a pop diva robot persona through text-to-talk technology. Although he eventually abandoned these projects, traces of them can be found in the nature machine! Throughout this collection, Gillespie merges poetic forms with interstitial moments of sound and visual technologies to playfully theorize the now and to seriously contemplate the future. With dexterity, he threads ideas on cybernetics, pop music, the environment, desire, and recovery to examine how technology has transformed our natures. But ultimately, full of warmth and wit, this book reminds us why, despite everything, we're still not-yet-machines.
Author Bio
I’m Tyler Gillespie, and I've taught college writing courses since 2015. I'm currently an instructor in the Department of Writing & Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. I teach the first-year writing sequence in FASTrack, a cohort-based program geared toward first generation and out-of-state students.
My scholarship focuses on first-year composition, queer rhetorics, and rhetorical practices. I'm also a poet, humor writer, and award-winning journalist published in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, GQ, VICE, and Salon. My books include The Thing about Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (UPF, 2021) and Florida Man:Poems (Red Flag Poetry, 2018). My full writing portfolio can be found at TylerMTG.com.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Journalism & Media Studies. I'm currently a PhD student in the English: Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication program at the University of Memphis.
This site serves as my teaching/research portfolio and as part of my Facutly Annual Review for the University of Mississippi. The Service page documents my work in the university community, and the Teaching pages contain my teaching philosophy, description of courses taught, memo documenting my teaching observations, and excerpts from student evaluations.
Source: tylergillespie.com
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