John Durham Peters

John Durham Peters is a media historian and theorist. He is the María Rosa Menocal Professor in English and is also appointed in Film and Media Studies. His most recent book, Promiscuous Knowledge: Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History (2020), was co-authored with his late colleague and friend Kenneth Cmiel (1954–2006). His other books, Speaking into the Air (1999), Courting the Abyss (2005), and The Marvelous Clouds (2015), were also published by the University of Chicago Press. He’s working on a book on weather as a hidden key to modernity.