Megan Gette, Ph.D., approaches the techne of listening and atmospherics as modes of description against extractive industry and interplanetary exploration. Her book project, thoughtlessness, centers Venus as a means to understand how prospective modeling and measurement of climate change in the American West is constructed and affected by ordinary ways of listening with heat, tremors and breath. Ethnographically attuned to geophysical technologies used in seismic prospecting and methane detection, it centers thinking across an elemental anthropology, feminist and anticolonial science studies, and sound studies to ask after the role of sensation in the construction of nothingness of the desert and the indefiniteness of global heating.

Her work has been supported by many fellowships, awards and residencies, and has been published or is forthcoming in Ways of Breathing and Knowing: the Politics and Poetics of Air, Atmosphere, and the Body, Venti: a Journal of Air, Art and Aesthetics, and Best American Experimental Writing 2020, among others. Her books include Majority Reef (Inside the Castle, 2020) and several chapbooks. Her intermodal poetics includes experimental writing, bookmaking and sound art, and models for collaborative authorship and publishing infrastructure as interventions in the apparatus of knowledge production.