Fernando Domínguez Rubio

About

Fernando Domínguez Rubio is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at UC San Diego. His professional role involves academic leadership within the Department of Communication, where he contributes to graduate education and research. Further details about his research focus, background, and key contributions are not provided in the available page text.

Research topics

• Political Science
• History
• Sociology
• Archaeology
• Computer Science
• Genealogy
• Art
• Law
• Business

Selected publications

• Still Life

  2019-09-06 · 101 citations

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• Fragilities

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2025-04-29 · 16 citations

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  An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics. At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind of world-making. In Fragilities, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attention to the moments when the bodies, things, and worlds we inhabit begin to crack an…

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• Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum

  British Art Studies · 2021 · 16 citations

  When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past generation a particular variety of materialist anthropology has taken root in those parts of historical studies that deal with things. “If humans have biographies, so should things”, some historians of s…

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• The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Fragility

  Public Culture · 2020 · 12 citations

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  Impermanence and fragility have become the defining conditions of the digital age. Technologies that were ubiquitous barely a decade ago, like floppy disks, now look like archaeological relics. It takes only a few years, if not months, before software environments are replaced by newer versions, often with limited backward compatibility. At the same time, digital technologies rely on hardware that has short life expectancy. The radical obsolescence of this new digital register raises a number of…

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• The Politics of Knowledge. An Introduction

  2021 · 10 citations

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  Author(s): Dominguez Rubio, Fernando; Baert, Patrick | Editor(s): Dominguez Rubio, Fernando; Baert, Patrick

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Frequent coauthors

• Patrick Baert

  University of Cambridge

  11 shared

• David Pontille

  Centre de sociologie de l'innovation

  3 shared

• Uriel Fogué

  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  3 shared

• Jérôme Denis

  3 shared

• Claudio E. Benzecry

  Northwestern University

  3 shared

• Dan Hicks

  2 shared

• Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

  University of California, San Diego

  2 shared

• Idalina Baptista

  2 shared

Labs

• Communication UC San DiegoPI

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