Profile

Books:

• How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person, University of Chicago Press, 2019 (see a review symposium at Syndicate: Philosophy)
• Genealogy as Critique, Indiana University Press, 2013 (see a review symposium in Foucault Studies, no. 18)
• Pragmatism as Transition, Columbia University Press, 2009 (see a review symposium in Contemporary Pragmatism in 2017 published upon the paperback release)

Articles and Essays:

• On Data Politics:
  • Current research in this area, some of which will appear in an in-progress book project tentatively titled Data Equals, includes an article on the histories of data-driven inequality in the milieu of W.E.B. Du Bois and Francis Galton (published in Theory, Culture, & Society) and an article arguing for a political theory of formats, aka data structures (published in Political Theory).
  • A distillation of the contributions to media theory and media historiography offered in How We Became Our Data appears in "Information before information theory: The politics of data beyond the perspective of communication" in New Media and Society
  • A distillation of the contributions to political philosophy offered in How We Became Our Data appears in "Infopolitics, Biopolitics, Anatamopolitics" at the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal.
  • Some arguments from the book are also summarized in two short pieces in The New York Times: "The Age of 'Infopolitics'" and "How Democracy Can Survive Big Data."
• On Genealogy and Pragmatism:
  • A summary of a few key ideas from Koopman's first two books is available in a précis article titled "Genealogical Pragmatism."
  • Representative scholarship on figures in the history of philosophy include are a pair of companion papers on Foucault's genealogy in Critical Inquiry (in the Summer 2013 issue) and in Constellations (in the December 2015 issue), and another pair of companion papers on James's pragmatism in Journal of the History of  Philosophy (in the July 2017 issue) and in diacritics (in a 2016 issue).
  • Other publications on genealogy and pragmatism have appeared in journals including: Critical Inquiry, diacritics, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, The Review of Metaphysics, Constellations, Philosophy & Social Criticism, The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Contemporary Pragmatism, Foucault Studies, and elsewhere.
  • Editorial projects on these topics have included a special issue on interdisciplinary uses of Foucault (in History of the Human Sciences), another issue on Foucault and Pragmatism (published in Foucault Studies), and a co-edited volume on Rorty and cultural critical philosophy (published by Bloomsbury [formerly Continuum]).

Website:

• For further details, please visit Colin Koopman's regularly updated website where you will find a complete list of publications: https://pages.uoregon.edu/koopman/.