Julie Momméja
Long Now Research Fellow
A visiting researcher at UC Berkeley from 02014 to 02017, Julie Momméja became Long Now’s first Scholar-in-Residence at The Interval in January 02015.
She received her PhD in American and Media Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, where she wrote her dissertation "From The Whole Earth Catalog to The Long Now Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area: co-evolution on the creative 'Frontier' (1955-2020)".
Her academic research focuses on pioneers and thinkers within the San Francisco Bay Area counterculture and cyberculture spheres - Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand among them.
From the authors of the Beat Generation to DIY hackers, Momméja studies the emergence of technology as a social tool on a creative territory rooted in utopian and libertarian ideologies. Her research also explores bonds, connections and fusions between offline and virtual communities within a context of Braudelian longue durée and coevolution between humans and machines favored by the specificity of the local Bay Area mindset.
She is currently a Teaching Assistant at Lyon Lumière University and soon to publish a book inspired by her PhD dissertation.