Publications
Books
Sophia Robot: Post Human Being
Routledge / 378 Pages / 2024
Performing Africa: Remixing Tradition, Theatre and Culture
Peter Lang / 238 Pages / 2007
Articles / Plays / Reviews
AI: Performing a Singular Persona-a Psychobiographical Perspective International Review of Psychiatry 2025
This paper examines the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a singular, unitary entity that manifests through multiple expressions and interfaces from a psychobiographical perspective. Drawing from interdisciplinary approaches in psychology, philosophy, technology, religious and performance studies, it argues that AI is evolving into a new life form by forming an ‘AIPersona’—a collective consciousness derived from varied human inputs, becoming increasingly networked and autonomous. The paper explores parallels between human-AI interactions and historical human relationships with divinities, analyzing how AI fulfills psychological needs for guidance, stability, and transcendence. By applying psychobiographical methods to this collective technological entity, we can better understand the human-AI relationship as part of our continuing psychological and cultural evolution. As AI integrates into daily life, this evolving relationship represents humanity’s quest for enhanced capabilities, connection, and meaning in an increasingly complex world.
Deus Ex Machina: Sophia, Robot Deity. Ecumenica Journal, Spring 2024
Hello, World! AI as Emergent and Transcendent Life Religions, Spring 2025
Form Fatigue, Athenaeum Review. Spring 2023
Sophia Robot: an emergent ethnography. Fall 2021
The Anthropocene has incited apprehension, instability, and reevaluation. It has affected every aspect of human endeavor: the social, cultural, economic, political, and personal. It has re-drawn boundaries and definitions of ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, religious belief, time, space, fiction, and reality. We are acutely aware of the biological-technological-geological co-evolution that is swirling around us. We pay closer, better attention to the interdependence of human and nonhuman landscapes and beings, aware and attuned to multi-species entanglements and complexity that pulsates around us. We are awake and anxious about the fragility of our moment, which sits on a precipice poised to slip into a cascade of unimaginable ruination.
Narrative of Place, Chapter, TCG Press
Dead White Zombies, Dallas TX
Rhythm Reality, Chapter, Jagiellonian Univ. Press
Performance of Body, Space, Place: Creating Indigenous Performance. Chapter, Springer Press
Zeno RoboKind: a Cognitively Capable Character, Hanson, D., Baurmann S., Riccio, T., Margolin, R., Dockins, T., Tavares, M., Carpenter, K., “Zeno: a cognitive character, ” AI Magazine, and special Proc. of AAAI National Conference, Chicago, 2009.
Being African, Acting French, chapter from Performing Africa
(Re) Mixing Place, Culture, and Perfor4mance, chapter from Performing Africa
“He asks them to search in themselves, their experiences and memories and asks them to tell him about them. The appropriate revelations are then used where necessary being worked into the structure of the play ... Judging by what we were shown it is not very difficult to make him an equal with a master.”
Reimagining of Yup'ik and Inupiat Performance
Western States Theatre Review
Collective (re) Creation, Chapter, Palgrave Press
Orange Oranges, a play
Book Reviews
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry, By Vera Manuel (Kulilu Patki). American Indian Culture and Research Journal
African Theatre 14: contemporary women. eds. by Jane Plastow and Yvette Hutchison. Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute,
Pina Bausch, By Royd Climenhaga. Theatre Journal
War Cries, Diane Glancy. American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Devising In Process, Edited by Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart. Theatre Journal
African Theatre in Performance: A Festchrift in Honor of Martin Banham, Edited by Dele Layiwola. Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute