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Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI (2022)
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This essay considers the nature and stakes of creative making with computational automation technologies. I will argue that Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach to the human as “technical life” takes care of the question of the nature of creativ... Read More about Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI.

Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth? (2019)
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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)
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© 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)
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© 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.

The automation of everyday life (2016)
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This text is the translation of the conference The automation of Everyday Life, delivered by Dr. Patrick Crogan (University of West of England, Bristol), the 5th of February of 2016 on the Meetings about communitacion and digital culture:Emerging res... Read More about The automation of everyday life.

Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy (2012)
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This is the introduction to the special issue of Culture Machine co-edited by the authors and drawn from the 2010 conference of the same name co-convened by the Digital Cultures Research Centre for the European Science Foundaiton (see www.payingatten... Read More about Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy.

Editing (and) individuation (2012)
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This essay will explore aspects of Bernard Stiegler's theorisation of film editing as the construction of a flux of perceptual experience at the heart of the industrialisation of attention characteristic of modern and contemporary technocultures. Thi... Read More about Editing (and) individuation.

Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture (2010)
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This essay takes Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon (2001) as a starting point for consideration of the impact of simulational interactive media on contemporary technoculture. The connections made in the film between virtual reality games and military research an... Read More about Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture.

Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, activism (2010)
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This essay introduced the special issue of Cultural Politics (6:2, July 2010) on Bernard Stiegler. It characterises the principal theoretical coordinates of Stiegler’s philosophy of technology and assesses its relevance for critical explorations betw... Read More about Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, activism.

Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler (2010)
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An Interview with French philosopher of technology and activist, Bernard Stiegler. The interview was conducted in November 2008 in Paris. It appears in the special issue on Stiegler in the journal Cultural Politics (6:2, July 2010), guest edited by P... Read More about Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler.

The Nintendo Wii, virtualisation and gestural analogics (2010)
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This paper examines the Nintendo Wii from a perspective informed by Martin Heidegger’s existential analysis of equipmental being in order to make some claims about the signficance of the Wii’s innovative interface. The Wii enhanced the analogical, g... Read More about The Nintendo Wii, virtualisation and gestural analogics.

The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister (2009)
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The Ister (Ross and Barison, 2003)—part documentary, travelogue and philosophical meditation supplementing Heidegger’s meditation on Holderlin’s poem about the Danube—opens and closes with sequences of a duck waddling along the bank of the river. The... Read More about The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister.

Real lives 2004: The devil you know (2008)
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This paper discusses the educational game software, Real Lives 2004 (Educational Simulations, 2004) as a means of raising and reflecting on the relations between simulational practices and statistics. These relations animate many modes of the framing... Read More about Real lives 2004: The devil you know.

Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series (2007)
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In Volumes 2 and 3 of his Technics and Time series, Bernard Stiegler advances a complex series of arguments concerning the relationship between philosophy and film, and thinking and film more generally. This is done in the context, and fulfillment, o... Read More about Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series.

Essential viewing: Review of Bernard Stiegler, La technique et le temps 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être [Technics and time 3: The time of cinema and the question of ill-being] (2006)
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Critical review of the third volume of Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series with a particular focus on Stiegler's theory of cinema and of cinematic consciousness therein.

The game thing: Ludology and other theory games (2004)
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The current state of computer games studies as it was in the early 2000s is critically examined in this paper by means of an analysis of the recently released computer game, The Thing. Game studies is an emerging area of humanities scholarship, an em... Read More about The game thing: Ludology and other theory games.

Theory of state deleuze, guattari and virilio on the state, technology and speed (1999)
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A critical comparative account of key propositions of Paul Virilio and of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari on the nature and technical character of the state.

The Tendency the Accident and the Untimely: Paul Virilio's Engagement with the Future (1999)
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This article explores the issues for contemporary critical practice raised by Paul Virilio's engagement with the future. Virilio's project is an ongoing attempt to theorize cultural, political, military and techno-scientific developments in terms bot... Read More about The Tendency the Accident and the Untimely: Paul Virilio's Engagement with the Future.