Department of Modern Culture and Media

Henry Neim Osman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Modern Culture and Media who works across philosophy of technology, history of computing, and the environmental humanities. His dissertation, Analog Immediacy: Computation and Critique at the Ends of the Digital, critiques the politics of analogy in the history of computing, moving from hydraulic computers designed to model the economy to analog, brain-inspired computers, to offer a new history of artificial intelligence and neural networks beyond traditional digital computers. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Film Quarterly; Theory, Culture & Society; Media Fields; and Surveillance and Society, as well as the edited collection Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions (Minnesota 2026), among others.