Alexander Rudenshiold

☆ Researcher, writer, musician, audio engineer, and designer based in Irvine, California.
☆ Ph.D. candidate in Film & Media Studies at UC — Irvine researching contemporary leftism online.
☆ Research interests: internet cultures, political media & communication, internet broad/pod-casting, online community, broadcast & digital histories, internet memes, queer studies, game studies.

☆ Journal article out soon in The Velvet Light Trap: "How 'Cracker' Became 'Hate Speech': Content Moderation Logics and Right-wing Mass-flagging on Twitch."

☆ Journal article out soon in Democratic Communiqué: “‘Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation’: The 2024 UAW 4811 Strike, Organizing for Palestine, and the Political Potential of Mass Unionism” (co-authored with Mark Gradoni & Jo Sweetnam).

☆ Journal article out now in Spectator: "'Do you remember:' Gay Loneliness, Loss, and Survivance in Robot Dreams" [ProQuest] [pdf].

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“‘Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation’: The 2024 UAW 4811 Strike, Organizing for Palestine, and the Political Potential of Mass Unionism.” Democratic Communiqué (forthcoming, Fall 2025). Co-authored with Mark K. Gradoni and Jo Sweetnam.

"How 'Cracker' Became 'Hate Speech': Content Moderation Logics and Right-wing Mass-flagging on Twitch." The Velvet Light Trap 96 (forthcoming, Fall 2025).

"'Do you remember:' Gay Loneliness, Loss, and Survivance in Robot Dreams." Spectator 45, no. 1 (Spring 2025): 41–47. [ProQuest] [pdf]

"Theorizing the After-Human in Videogames: Flesh and Intersubjectivity Against Residual Humanisms through Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology." Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 51, no. 3 (September 2024). Co-authored with Justin Keever. [DOI] [pdf]

"Furries Built the Internet: pre-2000 Community Computing." SPIR: Selected Papers of Internet Research (March 2024). [DOI] [pdf]

"'Like the Burning of the Library of Alexandria': The Death and Deletion of Yahoo! Answers." Spectator 43, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 9–18. Co-authored with Parker Bach and Harry Hudome. [ProQuest] [pdf]

‘“Live” and Leftist: Twitch, Political Livestreaming, and Hasan Piker.’ M.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2022. [DOI]

"A look back on AJJ’s ‘People Who Can Eat People…’ for its 15th anniversary" in BrooklynVegan

"Majority Rule’s trailblazing screamo classic ‘Interviews with David Frost’ turns 20" in BrooklynVegan

"No Genre, No Gender: LGBTQ Music Thrives in Richmond" in RVA Mag

"The Real Reasons Why Richmond Is A Great Underground Music City" in RVA Mag

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly, from One Signal / Simon & Schuster.
2022. Bibliography writer.

In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality by Elizabeth Ellcessor, from NYU Press.
2022. Copy editor, research assistant.

Volume 24, Issue 2 of The Communication Review
2021. Peer reviewer.

Music, culture, & politics articles for RVA Mag
2019. Editorial intern.

Issue 6.1 of The Rappahannock Review
2018. Lead poetry editor.

Whurk Magazine
2016. Music editor.

Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
Pitchfork 7.6!
Songwriting, performance.
Released by Secret Voice.

Infant Island - "Dayvan Cowboy"
Arrangement, recording, performance.
Released as part of the Grave Neighbors Vol. 7 compilation on Middle Man records.

Infant Island - "Aurora"
Songwriting, performance.
Released as part of the Balladeers, Redefined compilation on Secret Voice.

Mattachine & Mikau - Eject Modernity, Erase Tradition
Songwriting, performance.

So Badly - Lemon Blue
Production (engineering, recording, mixing).

Infant Island - Collections 1
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering), remixing.
Released by Hidden Sound Collective (US) & Dog Knights Productions (UK, EU).

Mattachine - Isolation as a Form of Torture
Songwriting, performance.
Released by Zegema Beach Records.

Infant Island - Beneath
Pitchfork 7.9!
Songwriting, performance.
Released by Dog Knights Productions.

Infant Island - Sepulcher
Songwriting, performance.
Released by Acrobat Unstable Records (US), Zegema Beach Records (Can), & Left Hand Label (UK, EU).

So Badly - Someone Better / Blue
Mixing, mastering.

Sylph - Sylph
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).

Infant Island - "Death Portrait"
Songwriting, performance.
Released as part of the Hymnes aux Désarrois de la Peau 4-way split.

Infant Island - "A Preoccupation (Reprise)"
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing).
Released as part of the Sordid States V.2 compilation on Middle Man Records.

Raw Feels - I Feel Fine
Mastering.

Infant Island - "Ugly Brunette/July 5th (Horse Jumper of Love cover)"
Re-arrangement, performance.
Released as part of the Grave Neighbours V.2 compilation on Middle Man Records.

Infant Island - Infant Island
Songwriting, performance.
Released on Middle Man Records (US), Conditions Records (US), Dingleberry Records (DE), & Zegema Beach Records (Can).

Infant Island - "Where There Is Ruin"
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).

Maidenhair - Charlie's Song
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).

Sorority Boy - Friends / Enemies
Production (engineering, recording, mixing).

Infant Island & Smallhands - Split
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).

Maidenhair - "Fall"
Songwriting, performance, production (engineering, recording, mixing, mastering).

Alex­ander Ruden­shiold

Alexander Rudenshiold