Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz at re: publica (2014)

Annalee Newitz (born May 6, 1969 in Santa Monica , California ) is of American nationality and works as a journalist, writer and editor in the fields of politics, science, technology and pop culture , especially science fiction .

Life

Newitz sees himself against a multicultural background. Father Marty's family is Jewish and comes from the San Fernando Valley ; mother Cynthia comes from a traditional family in a small town in Texas and converted to Judaism. Both parents are English teachers. Newitz grew up in Huntington Beach and Irvine , Orange Counties . Newitz described the experience of waking up in the planned city of Irvine , which is strictly regulated down to the turf , as "extremely strange". Newitz studied English at the University of California at Berkeley until he received his PhD in 1998. In his dissertation When We Pretend That We're Dead: Monsters, Psychopaths and the Economy in American Popular Culture (1998), Newitz examined five types of monsters, namely serial killers , crazy scientists , undead , robots and people from the entertainment industry , their role and history in the context of popular culture and Newitz interpreted from a Marxist perspective as quite real offspring of American capitalism .

From the mid-1990s, Newitz began to work as a freelance journalist and writer, mainly in the fields of science and technology, especially for the San Francisco Bay Guardian , where Newitz was an editor from 2000 to 2004 and published the weekly column Techsploitation . Newitz has also appeared in Slate , The New Yorker , The Atlantic , Wired , The Smithsonian Magazine , The Washington Post , 2600 , New Scientist , Technology Review , Popular Science, and Discover . From 2002 to 2003 Newitz had a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for Science Journalism of MIT and from 2004 to 2005 Newitz political analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation .

In 1992, Newitz and others founded the webzine Bad Subjects: Political education for everyday life , which appeared in 91 editions by 2017, making it one of the longest-lived web publications. Bad Subjects was a collaborative project hosted by the Open Access project EServer.org with the aim of providing a platform for progressive and left-wing voices. At times a printed edition was also published.

Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders (2011)

Together with Charlie Jane Anders , Newitz's partner since 2000, Newitz published the magazine Other from 2002 , a magazine for freaks , outsiders and all forms of marginalized people. By 2007, the magazine appeared in 13 issues with about 2,000 copies, which were mainly distributed through Californian independent bookstores.

2008 started Newitz together with Anders at Gawker Media blog io9 to its themes of science fiction, fantasy , future research include science and technology. The activity there ended in 2015 when io9 became part of Gizmodo . Newitz took over as editor-in-chief at Gizmodo and Anders took over Newitz's previous position at io9 . In 2015, Newitz left Gawker Media and has since worked in the editorial department in the technical culture department at Ars Technica . Another joint project by Newitz and Anders was the anthology She's Such a Geek (2006). Since March 2018 they have been creating the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct together . About his own professional career as a whole, Newitz says: "My whole career has been tricking people into letting me write about cool shit" ("My whole career has been to get people to let me write about the cool shit").

As of 2010, Newitz has published a number of science fiction short stories, starting with The Gravity Fetishist . In 2017 the first novel Autonomous was published about the dystopian world of the 22nd century, dominated by large corporations, in which people are kept capable and willing to work by means of drugs. The novel won the Lambda Literary Award in 2018 and was nominated for the Nebula Award , the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Locus Award .

Newitz is non-binary and has been using the singular pronoun they / them since the beginning of 2019 .

bibliography

Novels
Short stories
  • The Gravity Fetishist (2010)
  • Twilight of the Eco-Terrorist (2011)
  • From Slatt Harmonization Device (2011)
  • Unclaimed (2014)
  • Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy (2014)
  • Drones Don't Kill People (2014)
  • All-Natural Organic Microbes (2015)
  • Birth of the Ants Rights Movement (2016)
  • The Blue Fairy's Manifesto (2018)
  • Great Female Scientists in History (2018)
Non-fiction
  • When We Pretend That We're Dead: Monsters, Psychopaths and the Economy in American Popular Culture (PhD 1998, also published as Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. Duke University Press, Durham 2006, ISBN 0-8223 -3745-2 )
  • Magical Girls and Atomic Bomb Sperm: Japanese Animation in America (2008)
  • Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013)
as editor
  • White Trash: Race and Class in America (1997, with Matt Wray)
  • She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff (2006, with Charlie Jane Anders)

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Annalee Newitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annalee Newitz: Sexual Mutants of the Multiculture. ( Memento from November 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bad Subjects. No. 33, September 1997, accessed April 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Interview with Annalee Newitz: Annalee Newitz: Reprogramming. In: Locus Magazine . October 16, 2017, accessed April 14, 2020.
  3. ↑ Annalee Newitz: Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. Duke University Press, Durham 2006, ISBN 0-8223-3745-2 , p. 6 (English).
  4. ^ Duke University Press: Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture. In: dukeupress.edu. 2006, accessed April 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ Annalee Newitz: When We Pretend That We're Dead: Monsters, Psychopaths and the Economy in American Popular Culture. ( Memento of February 27, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berkeley.edu . 1998, accessed on April 14, 2020 (English; PhD thesis 1998, incomplete preprint version).
  6. ^ Annalee Newitz: About Annalee. ( Memento of March 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Techsploitation. Own website, 2006, accessed on April 14, 2020 (English).
  7. ^ Diana Crow: Annalee Newitz, '03. In: MIT.edu . October 21, 2015, accessed April 14, 2020 (English; website for the “Knight Science Journalism Fellowship” award).
  8. ↑ Archive version: Bad Subjects. ( Memento from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: bad.eserver.org. 1992–2017, accessed on April 14, 2020 (last edition in English).
  9. ↑ Rona Marech: San Francisco: A pop culture magazine for freaks and "new outcasts" / Other journal is pro-rant, pro-loopy and pro-anarchy. In: San Francisco Chronicle . August 31, 2004, accessed April 14, 2020.
  10. ↑ Other Magazine: Other - Back Issues. ( Memento from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: OtherMag.org. 2003–2007, accessed April 14, 2020.
  11. ^ Annalee Newitz: Welcome to the Future Initiative. In: AnnaleeNewitz.kinja.com. Blog post from January 15, 2015, accessed on April 14, 2020.
  12. ↑ Science Fiction von Frauen # 6: Annalee Newitz , addendum to the article by Judith C. Vogt from July 11, 2019 on TOR -online.de, accessed on April 16, 2020.
  13. ↑ a b c Annalee Newitz in the Science Fiction Awards + Database. 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Newitz, Annalee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California , USA