Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric Zabet Patterson’s dissertation is titled The Representational Grid of Digital Media. In this interrogation of digital technologies, Patterson argues that one of the key modalities through which the digital is made visible and malleable is the figure of the grid. A rhetoric of the grid can be seen to emerge again and again in contemporary discourses about digital media. And within the rhetoric of digital media, the figure of the grid emerges as a way of negotiating a number of heterogeneous and often contradictory discourses: concerning representation, materialism, and science, on the one hand; transcendence and spiritualism, on the other. Examining the history of the grid in Western representation, as well as contemporary artistic practices that make use of digital technology, Patterson provides a new perspective on the history of digitality, enabling a rethinking of its contemporary discursive figuration.