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Books
Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs. Picton, ON: Invisible Publishing, 2021. [literary fiction]
American Folk Music as Tactical Media. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. [scholarly monograph]
Book Chapters
"The Complex Digital Utopianism of Robert Adrian X." In Variable Conditions: Paracomputational Arts in Canada, 1965-1995, edited by Adam Lauder, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023, pp. 188-204.
"'Miner with a Heart of Gold': Native North America, Vol. 1 and the Colonial Excavation of Authenticity." In Unsettling Canadian Art History, edited by Erin Morton, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022, pp. 179-194.
Journal Articles
"'Through the Digits, Through the Fingers': Variations on the String Figure as Imaginary Digital Medium." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 29.2 (2023): 519-535.
"Fictocritical Improv for a New Author Paradigm, or How to Render the Messiness of String Figure Research" (co-authored with Zach Pearl). Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 25.2 (2021): 1-25.
"Buzzing Lines of Flight: A Survey of My Own Private Soundscape." Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia 10.1 (2021): 18-25.
"Taking Care of Authenticity on the CBC’s Randy’s Vinyl Tap." Journal of Radio & Audio Media 27.1 (2020): 25-38.
"'THER IS A VERY INSISTENT NOISE FROM THE MACHINES IN HERE': Theorizing Digital Media through Greg Curnoe’s Computer Journals" (co-authored with Mark Hayward). The Canadian Journal of Communication 45.1 (2020): 7-24.
"L(a)ying with Marshall McLuhan: Media Theory as Hoax Art." Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 8.3 (2017): n.p.
"Roch Commune 2.0" (with Eleanor King). Public 28.55 (2017): 98-99.
"From the Turing Test to a Wired Carnivalesque: On the Durability of LIVINGSTON’s Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada." Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 12.4 (2016).
"iHootenanny: A Folk Archeology of Social Media." The FibreCulture Journal 25 (2015).
"Pete Seeger’s Mediatized Folk." Journal of Popular Music Studies 27.2 (2015): 145-162.
"Brando versus Franco: Media Theorizing with the Stars." Celebrity Studies 5.3 (2014): 368-371.
"Folk Media: Alan Lomax's Deep Digitality." Canadian Journal of Communication 38.2 (2013): 227-244.
"La Commune" (with Eleanor King). Reviews in Cultural Theory 2.3 (2012): 101-103.
“Who Don’t Care if the Money’s No Good?: Authenticity and The Band.”Popular Music and Society 35.3 (2012): 427-445.
“‘The Purpose of These Acting Exercises’: The Actors’ Studio and the Labours of Celebrity.” Celebrity Studies 1.3 (2010): 285-300.
"Becoming Machinic Virtuosos: Guitar Hero, Rez, and Multitudinous Aesthetics." Loading... 2.2 (2008): n.p.
Book Reviews and Interviews
Review of The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics. In Philosophy in Review 41.2 (2021).
Review of Media Hoaxing: The Yes Men and Utopian Politics. In the Canadian Journal of Communication 44.3 (2019).
Review of For Folk's Sake: Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia. Reviews in Cultural Theory 8.1 (2018).
Review of Radio’s New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Era. Canadian Journal of Communication 41.1 (2016): 237-239.
“On Dallas Smythe’s ‘Audience Commodity’: An Interview with Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzerolle.” triple C: communication, capitalism & critique 13.2 (2015).
Svec, Henry Adam. “Utopia: Social Theory and the Future.” Wi: Journal of Mobile Media 8.2 (2014): n.p.
Svec, Henry Adam. “What is Media Archeology?” New Media & Society 15.5 (2013): 807-809.
Fiction, Criticism, etc.
"Henry Adam Svec's Playlist for His Novel 'Life Is Like Canadian Football and Other Authentic Folk Songs.'" Largehearted Boy (November 8, 2021).
"7 Novels by, or About, Folk Musicians." Electric Literature (November 21, 2021).
"Mary MacDonald's Kitchen Party Praxis." Acadiensis Blog (April 1, 2019).
“Eleanor King: Dark Utopian.” C Magazine 126 (Summer 2015): 64-65.
“The Song Catcher.” (2014). In P. D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and S. Matviyenko (Eds.), The Imaginary App (Plate 8). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
“D’Arcy Wilson’s Tuck.” C Magazine 123 (October 2014): 49-50.
“Video Nasty: One Filmmaker’s Documentary on Porn and Addiction.” Broken Pencil 65 (October 2014): 18-19.
“Kisses for Köchel.” Framework 9/14 (Commissioned text published by the Susan Hobbs Gallery on Arnaud Maggs, September 2014): n.p.
“How We’ve Digitized Desire.” MOTHERBOARD (May 23, 2014): n.p.
“Getting Wavy With Sean Michaels and the Theremin.” Noisey (April 28, 2014): n.p.
“Michael Feuerstack Talks Singing and Songing.” Noisey (April 16, 2014): n.p.
"To Haunt All That Might Yet Come To Be: Raymond Boisjoly's Noises." The Work That Work Leaves Undone (Forest City Gallery Digital Publication): 4-5.
“When You Hear That Word.” The New Quarterly 118 (April 2011): 132-134.
“United States Patent Application 005423.” Darling-Made-Me-Do-It 004 (2011).
Various music reviews for Popmatters.