Jasmine Rault

Queer & feminist design, Queer digital archives, Digital culture & design, Digital ethics, Architectural studies, Aesthetics and effects of white supremacy & settler colonialism

Jasmine Rault’s research focuses on media, technology and culture with an eye to the mediations of gender, race and sexuality in architecture and design, digital cultures and economies, arts and social movements. This includes publications on the confluence between coloniality, digitality and architectural modernity (American Studies Quarterly), “White Noise/White Affects” in queer popular culture (Feminist Media Studies), “Relajo and the Affects of Queer Activism in Mexico” (Scholar & Feminist Online), risk and intimate networks in queer digital archives (Women & Performance) and more in journals such as Ephemera, Ada, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture; Archives of American Art. Rault’s first book is Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In (Ashgate/Routledge). Rault is co-director, with T.L. Cowan, of the Trans- Feminist Queer Digital Praxis Workshop (TFQ DPW) which includes the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC, drecollab.org) and the Cabaret Commons (cabaretcommons.org).

Books:

Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, Aldershot & Burlington: Ashgate, 2011; New York: Routledge, 2016

Selected Articles:

Jasmine Rault, “Window Walls and Other Tricks of Transparency: Digitality, Colonial and Architectural Modernity,” American Quarterly (forthcoming 72.4, 2020)

Jasmine Rault, “New School Desires: ‘Poised Precisely Between Fantasy and Reality,’” I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here: Site-Specific Works from The New School. Eds. Frances    Richard & Silvia Rocciolo. New York City: The New School / Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019: 87-90.

Jasmine Rault & T.L. Cowan, “Onlining Queer Acts: Digital Research Ethics & Caring for Risky Archives,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Special issue on “Queer Circuits: Performance, Networked Data, Digital Cultures.” Eds. Benjamin Haber & Daniel   J. Sander. 28.2, 2018: 121-142

Michelle Marzullo, Jasmine Rault & T.L. Cowan. “‘Can I Study You?’ Cross-Disciplinary Conversations in Queer Internet Studies.” First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet. Special Issue: Queer Internet Studies. 23.7, 2018

Jasmine Rault, “White Noise, White Affects: Filtering the Sameness of Queer Suffering,” Feminist Media Studies, 17.4, 2017: 585-599

Jasmine Rault, “Ridiculizing Power: Relajo and the Affects of Queer Activism in Mexico,” Scholar & Feminist Online, 14.2 (Fall) 2017

Jasmine Rault & T.L. Cowan, “Haven’t you ever heard of Tumblr? FemTechNet’s Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC), Pedagogical Publics, and Classroom Incivility,” MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education,      Elizabeth Losh, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017: 161-176

Jasmine Rault, “Housing Foreclosure: Theaster Gates’ Queer Architectural Practice,” Entry Points: The Vera List Center Manual on Art and Social Justice, Carin Kuoni & Chelsea Haines, eds. New York: Vera List Center for Art and Politics/Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016: 266-268

T.L. Cowan & Jasmine Rault, “Trading Credit for Debt: Queer History-Making and Debt Culture”, Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42.1-2, Spring-Summer 2014a: 294-310

Jasmine Rault & T.L. Cowan, “The Labour of Being Studied in a Free Love Economy,” ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 14.3, 2014b: 471-488

Dayna McLeod, Jasmine Rault and T.L. Cowan, “Speculative Praxis Toward a Queer Feminist Digital Archive,” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, 4, July 2014

SDS1999 – Queering Design: Sexual Politics of Space, Place and Digital Culture