{"id":2206,"date":"2025-02-06T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T22:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:27:50","slug":"dave-parisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/dave-parisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Parisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-structured-body field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\">\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--styled-text paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-styled-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>David Parisi is the\u00a0Dibner Family Chair in the History and Philosophy of Technology and Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society.\u00a0His research investigates the past, present, and future of touching with digital technologies. Parisi\u2019s book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/151790059X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing<\/a>\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) explores the technological transformations of touch necessary for the invention of touch-based computer interfaces. Opening with an examination of touch\u2019s role in apprehending the mysteries of eighteenth century electrical machines, and closing with an analysis of new computing technologies that digitally synthesize haptic sensations,\u00a0Archaeologies of Touch\u00a0traces the iterative development of a technoscientific haptics across four centuries. Along the way, he shows how electric shock, experimental psychology, cybernetics, aesthetics, telemanipulation robotics, and virtual reality each participated in a reconceptualization of touch necessary for its integration into contemporary computing technologies. Parisi\u2019s work has been\u00a0published in venues such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reallifemag.com\/cant-touch-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Life<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/logicmag.io\/sex\/realtouching-from-a-distance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Logic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlineopen.org\/dreaming-and-doing-haptics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open!<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/romchip.org\/index.php\/romchip-journal\/article\/view\/86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ROMchip<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1461444817717518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Media &amp; Society,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gamescriticism.org\/2023\/07\/24\/a-counterrevolution-in-the-hands-the-console-controller-as-an-ergonomic-branding-mechanism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Journal of Games Criticism,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1354856518814681?journalCode=cona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Convergence<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gamestudies.org\/1302\/articles\/parisi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Game Studies<\/a>. His perspectives on the intersection of touch and digital media have been featured on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashforwardpod.com\/2021\/04\/13\/what-if-we-could-never-touch-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flash Forward<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/7mDB6bS4IafJvw1SbGV7q5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Haptics Club<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jCnotbPaQ_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet of the Senses<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.davebirnbaum.com\/guests\/davidparisi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INIT<\/a>. He\u00a0currently serves as an editor for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/romchip.org\/index.php\/romchip-journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Parisi is the\u00a0Dibner Family Chair in the History and Philosophy of Technology and Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society.\u00a0His research investigates the past, present, and future of touching with digital technologies. Parisi\u2019s book\u00a0Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 2018) explores the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}