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2016

Levin, Thomas Y. “We Have Never Been Present (at Least Not to Ourselves).” Presence - A Conversation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich. Philip Ursprung, Mechtild Widrich & Jürg Berthold Eds. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. passim. Print.

2010

Levin, Thomas Y. “Surveillance, Aesthesis, Literacy.” Twenty-Five: An Anthology for the 25th Anniversary of BIT Teatergarasjen. Marie Nerland, Ed. Bergen (Norway): BIT Teatergarasjen, 2010. 189–193. Print.

2009

Levin, Thomas Y. “Alegato Por La Violencia Sonora.” Cultura/s [= weekly cultural magazine of] La Vanguardia (November 4, 2009) 2009: 3–4. Print.

2008

Levin, Thomas Y., and Michael W. Jennings. “Publishing Industry and Radio [=Introductory Essay].” Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Jennings, Doherty & Levin, Eds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2008. 343–352. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Film [Section Introduction].” Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility. Jennings, Doherty & Levin, Eds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2008. 315–322. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y., Michael W. Jennings, and Brigid Doherty. “Editor’s Introduction.” Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2008. 1–8. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Agencies of Vision: Remarks on Selected Works by Denis Beaubois.” Video Logic. Sidney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. 14–21. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “The Eye Reconfigured - New Apparatuses.” Fotografia E Novas Mídias. Antonio Fatorelli, Ed. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Contra Capa, 2008. 146–160. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams: Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Hanecke’s Caché.” Function/Fiction:/Utilitarian/Images/Reconfigured./Vincent/Bonin/&/France/Choinière,/Eds. Montreal: Les Éditions Dazibao, Centre de Photographies Actuelles / Edipresse, 2008. 59–70. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. et al. Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media . (with Brigid Doherty & Michael W. Jennings) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2008. Print.

2006

Levin, Thomas Y. “Surveillant.” Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art. Caroline A. Jones, Ed. . Cambridge, Mass.: List Visual Art Center and MIT Press, 2006. 212–215. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Film As Critical Practice: Thomas Y. Levin, Keith Sanborn and Anthony Vidler in Conversation With Jean-Michel Rabaté.” Rrrevolutionnaire: Conversations in Theory, Vol. 1. Gregg Lambert & Aaron Levy, Eds. Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2006. 151–171. Print.

2002

Levin, Thomas Y. “Rhetoric of the Temporal Index: Surveillant Narration and the Cinema of ’Real Time’.” CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Thomas Y. Levin Et. Al Eds. . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 578–593. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “’Töne Aus Dem Nichts’: Rudolf Pfenninger Und Die Archäologie Des Synthetischen Tons.” Zwischen Rauschen Und Offenbarung. Zur Kultur- Und Mediengeschichte Der Stimme. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. 313–355. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Print.

2001

Levin, Thomas Y. “Jeff Guess: ’Fonce Alphonse’.” CTRL [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Thomas Y. Levin Et. Al Eds. . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. 612–613. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “’Where My Tape, man?’: Denis Beaubois and the Performative Politics of Panoptical Détournement.” Die Wachsame Gesellschaft. Internationaler Medienkunstpreis 2001 . Karlsruhe: ZKM/SWR, 2001. 80–99. Print.

2000

Levin, Thomas Y. “’You Never Know the Whole Story’: Ute Friederike Jürß and the Aesthetics of the Heterochronic Image.” Ute Friederike Jürß: You Never Know the Whole Story. Stuttgart: Cantz Verlag, 2000. 54–87. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Die Rhetorik Der Überwachung: Angst Vor Beobachtung in Den zeitgenössischen Medien.” 7 Hügel: Bilder Und Zeichen Des 21. Jahrhunderts. Band IV- Zivilisation: Städte-Bürger-Cybercities. Die Zukunft Unserer Lebenswelten. Berlin: Henschel, 2000. 49–63. Print.

1999

Levin, Thomas Y. “ Vor Dem Piepton: Eine Kleine Geschichte Des Voice Mail .” Wissensbilder: Strategien Der Überlieferung. Ulrich Raulff & Gary Smith, Eds. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. 279–318. Print.

1996

Levin, Thomas Y. “Iconology at the Movies: Panofsky’s Film Theory [Revised and Expanded Version].” The Yale Journal of Criticism 9.1 (1996): 27–55. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Geopolitics of Hibernation: The Drift of Situationist Urbanism.” Situacionistas: Arte, política, Urbanismo Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism. Libero Andreotti and Xavier Costa, Eds. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani, 1996. 111–146. Print.

1995

Levin, Thomas Y. “Nationalitäten Der Sprache - Adornos Fremdwörter: Multikulturalismus Und Bzw. Als Übersetzung.” Multikulturalität: Tendenzen, Probleme, Perspektiven. Michael Kessler & Jürgen Wertheimer, Eds. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1995. 77–89. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Introduction to The Mass Ornament.” Siegfried Kracauer: The Mass Ornament. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1995. 1–30. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Iconology at the Movies: Panofsky’s Film Theory.” Meaning in the Visual Arts: Views from the Outside. A Centennial Commemoration of Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968). Ing Lavin, Ed. Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1995. 313–333. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Before the Beep: A Short History of Voice Mail.” Technophonia: Essays in Sound 2. Darlinghurst: Contemporary Sound Arts, 1995. 59–67. Print.
Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament. Weimar Essays. . (Translated, Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Y. Levin) Cambridge Mass.: Harvard UP, 1995. Print.

1994

Levin, Thomas Y., and Michael Linn. “Elements of a Radio Theory: Adorno and the Princeton Radio Research Project.” Musical Quarterly 78.2 (1994): 316–324. Print.

1993

1992

Kracauer, Siegfried. “Roller Coaster [Thomas Y. Levin, trans.].” Qui Parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History 5:.2 (1992): 58–60. Print.
Farocki, Harun. “Reality Would Have to Begin [Thomas Y. Levin, Thomas Keenan and Marek Wieczorek, trans.].” Documents 1/2 (Fall/Winter) (1992): 136–146. Print.

1991

Levin, Thomas Y. “Neue Kracauer-Texte: Eine Bibliographische Meldung.” Jahrbuch Der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 35. N.p., 1991. 460–462. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “The English-Language Reception of Kracauer’s Work: A Bibliography.” New German Critique 54 (1991): 183–189. Print.

1990

Levin, Thomas Y., and Michael K. Kessler. “Vorwort.” Siegfried Kracauer. Neue Interpretationen. Michael Kessler & Thomas Y. Levin, Eds. Stuttgart: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1990. VII-XIII. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “Archäologie Des Exils: Siegfried Kracauers Briefe an Daniel Halévy [Edited, Annotated and With an Introduction] .” Siegfried Kracauer. Neue Interpretationen. Michael Kessler and Thomas Y. Levin, Eds. Stuttgart: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1990. 345–417. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “ Der enthüllte Kracauer: Ein Forschungsbericht .” Siegfried Kracauer. Neue Interpretationen. Michael Kessler & Thomas Y. Levin, Eds. Stuttgart: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1990. 229–247. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. Siegfried Kracauer. Neue Interpretationen . (with Michael Kessler ) Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1990. Print.

1989

Levin, Thomas Y. “Dismantling the Spectacle: The Cinema of Guy Debord.” On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1957-1972. Elisabeth Sussman, Ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989. 72–123. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. Siegfried Kracauer: Eine Bibliographie Seiner Schriften . Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 1989. Print.

1987

Levin, Thomas Y. “Siegfried Kracauer in English: A Bibliography.” New German Critique 41 (1987): 140–150. Print.
Levin, Thomas Y. “From Dialectical To Normative Specificity: Reading Lukács on Film.” New German Critique 40 (1987): 35–61. Print.

Working Papers

Levin, Thomas Y. “Walter Benjamin, “On the Minute,” “Two Types of Popularity,” and ‘Conversation With Ernst Schoen’ In: Jennings, Doherty & Levin, Eds.,”. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008): 397-409, Harvard UP, 2008, pp. 397-09.