Pilsch’s first book, Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia, was released by University of Minnesota Press in 2017. He is currently at work on a monograph, tentatively entitled Immutability: The World According to Software Bugs, that accounts for cultures of risk through a media archaeology of the computer bug. His research has been published in Amodern, Philosophy & Rhetoric, and Science Fiction Studies.