I work at the intersections of literary studies, border theory, and media design. My research argues that territorial conflict and the proliferation of spaces of exception emerge, in part, from the circulation of aesthetic and rhetorical forms and their associated attachment of feelings. Literary theory and digital studies (at its best) have in common a deep interest in communicating knowledge and in exploring experimental form. Literary studies is attentive to the materiality of texts, the cultural context of words and ideas, and the ways that narrative form influences meaning. Likewise, media studies is interested in the interplay between form, content, and medium (Hayles 33). While in some cases digital media research can grossly simplify complex information and events, it also has a radical potential to present ideas in innovative ways.