Richard Arthur Grusin (born September 29, 1953)[1] is an American new media scholar and author.
Grusin's academic work is fundamentally interdisciplinary; his main interests include various aspects of media, environmental, cultural, and American studies.
His scholarly concerns focus on the way that the very questions of representation and mediation that preoccupy us today have manifested themselves historically across western culture.
It argues that at least since the new millennium, networked global media seek to ensure that the future is already pre-mediated before it emerges into the present.
The book also explores how the phenomenon of premediation produces and maintains a low level of anxiety in relation both to the global war on terror and to such other post-9/11 threats like climate change, cybersecurity, or financial crises.