Outputs (48)

Creativity and the problem of automation (2020)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2020). Creativity and the problem of automation. In P. Crogan (Ed.), Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (16-22). SWCTN

As AI-driven automation systems make their presence increasingly felt in everyday lives, the nature and value of human creativity is becoming an issue requiring urgent attention. While the disruptive impacts of digital innovation are often celebrated... Read More about Creativity and the problem of automation.

Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (2020)
Book
Crogan, P. (Ed.). (2020). Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation. SWCTN

A collective publication by South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellows. This collection presents thoughts, provocations and reflections on AI and automation in the arena of creative making from some of the South West Creative Technolog... Read More about Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation.

Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare (2019)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2020). Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare. In T. Heffernan (Ed.), Cyborg Futures: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (89-112). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21836-2_5

My subject in this paper is the analysis, speculation and recommendations for the future development and deployment of lethal autonomous robotic systems such as they appear in reports, studies and presentations emanating from what is still aptly call... Read More about Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare.

Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth? (2019)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2019). Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth?. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 98, 48-67. https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF%3A98.04.2019

This essay examines philosopher of technology and media Bernard Stiegler’s propositions concerning the nature and effects of the automation of social existence through computational processes deployed in online media. It argues for the critical perti... Read More about Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth?.

Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch (2018)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2018). Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch. Games and Culture, 13(7), 671-689. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412018756708

© The Author(s) 2018. This essay draws on research undertaken as part of a research network project exploring the growth of independent game producers in recent years and the associated changes in the technological and economic conditions of the game... Read More about Indie Dreams: Video Games, Creative Economy, and the Hyperindustrial Epoch.

San Andreas and the Spiralling of the Analogico–Digital Animated Image (2017)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2017). San Andreas and the Spiralling of the Analogico–Digital Animated Image. Animation, 12(3), 334-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717729595

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. This article considers the contemporary state of mainstream Hollywood cinema as a profoundly animation-driven form of spectacular entertainment characteristic of global digital media in the era of what Bernard Stiegler c... Read More about San Andreas and the Spiralling of the Analogico–Digital Animated Image.

Bernard Stiegler (2017)
Other
Crogan, P. (2017). Bernard Stiegler

Annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources for Bernard Stiegler. For the online service of Oxford University Press, Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory.

Automatic society: Stiegler on stupidity, spirals and the end (of theory) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Crogan, P. (2017, February). Automatic society: Stiegler on stupidity, spirals and the end (of theory). Presented at Centre for Film, Media, Discourse and Culture,University of Wolverhampton Seminar Series, University of Wolverhampton

This talk will discuss philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s efforts to promote a critical encounter with key tendencies readily apparent in contemporary globalised digital technocultural development: a spiralling stupidity, a corresponding loss of the capa... Read More about Automatic society: Stiegler on stupidity, spirals and the end (of theory).

Providential enunciation in Mr Deeds Goes to Town (2016)
Digital Artefact
Crogan, P. (2016). Providential enunciation in Mr Deeds Goes to Town

Audiovisual essay analysing sequences from Capra classic. Film studies interpretation of enunciative strategy of Mr Deeds.

War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace (2016)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2016). War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace. In P. Harrigan, & M. Kirschenbaum (Eds.), Zones of Control: Perspectives on Wargaming (641-667). Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)

This chapter will reflect on aspects of the expansion of military drone usage by Western powers in the “war on terror” over the last decade or so. In examining contemporary and envisaged drone deployments I am also concerned with what they can reveal... Read More about War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace.