Research

My research explores the cognitive, epistemic, medium-specific, and political- economic transformations driven by advances in computation and digital media. Situated at the intersection of digital media studies and critical theory, my work is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on critical social theory, software and critical AI studies, the philosophy of science and technology, media history, cultural theory, digital humanities, and platform studies.

Publications

Stockman, J. (under contract; forthcoming 2027). Critical Theory and Network Science: Reason in Computational Capitalism. Manchester University Press.

Stockman, J. (forthcoming). Where Next for Critical Theory? A Review Essay of Neal Harris’ ‘Critical Theory & Social Pathology: The Frankfurt School Beyond Recognition’. Sozialwissenschaftliche Rundschau.

Stockman, J. & Berry, D. M. (2024). Schumacher in the Age of Generative AI: Towards a New Critique of Technology. European Journal of Social Theory, 27 (3), 437-455.

Stockman, J. (2021). Pathologies of Reason in Computational Capitalism: A Speculative Diagnosis of our Computational Worldview. In Harris, N. (ed.), Pathology Diagnosis & Social Research: New Applications and Explorations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Stockman, J. & Harris, N. (2021). The Future of Pathology Diagnosing Social Research. In Harris, N (ed.), Pathology Diagnosis & Social Research: New Applications and Explorations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Stockman, J. (2017). Review Article of “Podemos: In the Name of the People” by Íñigo Errejón and Chantel Mouffe. Marx & Philosophy Review of Books.

Articles under preparation:

‘Artificial Totality: Intermediation and the Coming Crisis of Democratic Thought’ (co-authored with David M. Berry). To be published in the journal Sociological Forum as part of a special issue on the centenary of the IfS.

‘The Network A Priori: A Marcusian Critique of LLM-driven Network Simulation’. To be published in the Journal of Classical Sociology as part of a special issue on ‘Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory: One Dimensionality in an age of Artificial Intelligence’.