Martin E. Rosenberg

Now retired, Martin E. Rosenberg has focused on the cultural history of the scientific concept of emergence in philosophy and across the arts. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan in 1990, and has published on poetry (Ezra Pound), fiction (Thomas Pynchon), visual arts (Marcel Duchamp; Kiki Smith); Theater (Samuel Beckett); architecture (Arakawa and Gins); and music (John Cage; jazz improvisation); philosophy (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; Henri Bergson); and has authored and theorized about hypermedia. He currently researches the philosophical implications of the cognitive neuroscience of jazz improvisation. He has also been, until recently, a working jazz guitarist, arranger and composer.