https://www.nathanielzetter.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-09-02 https://www.nathanielzetter.com/about daily 1.0 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/525486fe-1925-49ec-8934-67264c88c07b/profile+photo.jpg About - I’m a writer and academic based at the University of Cambridge. Since completing my Ph.D. in 2019, I’ve taught literature, film, and critical theory at Cambridge, and my research in cultural theory and history has focused on the meanings of technology, militarism, and the body. My writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Textual Practice, Humanities, and Critical Quarterly—among other journals and books. My first monograph, War/Sport: A Genealogy of Play and Violence, will trace the confluence between the concepts of war and sport in modernity. A full list of my publications and forthcoming projects is available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/8606e075-7354-43ed-8939-e2a5fbdf4723/75.png About - Latest publication: ‘“Department of War” is a more accurate label than “Defense”’, in The Los Angeles Times. https://www.nathanielzetter.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-09-22 https://www.nathanielzetter.com/speaking daily 0.75 2022-04-01 https://www.nathanielzetter.com/writing daily 0.75 2024-09-24 https://www.nathanielzetter.com/writing/war-sport monthly 0.5 2020-10-10 https://www.nathanielzetter.com/writing/articulating-media monthly 0.5 2023-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/afa48105-73ea-4b6c-acac-4bf51f652b85/Screenshot+2023-03-08+at+17.23.13.jpg Writing - Articulating Media - A collection of new essays examining the intersections of media and language, published in the Technographies book series. (Open Humanities Press, 2023) https://www.nathanielzetter.com/writing/essays-reviews monthly 0.5 2020-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/1602003889466-L7L8DXF5AKX0Z64XN1EO/Screenshot+2020-10-06+at+18.03.44.png Writing - Essays & Reviews - ‘Reviews: Sport 2.0, by Andy Miah; Metagaming, by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux’ Critical Quarterly 59, no. 3 (October 2017): 113–117. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/ac0264de-1b5e-44e8-a0f1-f26b785345ab/imrs.php.jpg Writing - Essays & Reviews - ‘The Paris Olympics doused the flame on Nazi theatrics. L.A. should follow suit.’ Co-authored with Trisha Urmi Banerjee, for The Washington Post (24 September 2024), p. A21. https://www.nathanielzetter.com/writing/articles-book-chapters monthly 0.5 2020-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/b731bef8-ffd2-46a6-aea6-7e0b18fcddc3/Screenshot+2023-03-08+at+17.31.17.png Writing - Articles & Book Chapters - ‘Introduction: Media and Articulation’ Co-authored with James Gabrillo, in Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation (Open Humanities Press, 2023), 7–19. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/1600621003289-2XEBTYF70GGK9SN3MH63/Screenshot+2020-09-20+at+17.49.58.png Writing - Articles & Book Chapters - ‘Cybernetic Melancholia: Chris Ware’s Building Stories and Cultural Informatics’ Textual Practice 34, no. 3 (March 2020): 437-460. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/1600621709465-WWGM4OBR6JS7ZUSKRLIN/Surveillance+cover.png Writing - Articles & Book Chapters - ‘In the Drone-Space: Surveillance, Spatial Processing, and the Videogame as Architectural Problem’ Surveillance, Architecture and Control: Discourses on Spatial Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 233–54. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/1600687047985-J72G6CBN5047D233K8QQ/The-perspectival-subject.jpg Writing - Articles & Book Chapters - ‘Perception and Periodization: Video Game Perspective as Symbolic Form’ Studies in Control Societies 1, no. 1 (Spring 2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/dd0bf902-738d-4084-bb4a-2f77b0f989ac/tempImageNtbIdO.jpg Writing - Articles & Book Chapters - ‘Sport Plus the Shooting: Military Vision and the Logic of War in Esports’ in War Minus the Shooting? Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Routledge, 2023), 77–97. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f67379e5a92157dd17fbc10/1600686351081-NN5BZX58CYPWXO5BZ6WB/cybernetics.jpg Writing - Articles & Book Chapters - ‘Inscription and “Anscription”: Surface and System in Cybernetics, Deconstruction, and Don DeLillo’ Humanities 8, no. 1 (March 2019): 1–14.