All Outputs (13)

The conditions of videogame production: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity (2020)
Book Chapter

This essay considers the implications of Bernard Stiegler's philosophy of technology for a critical account of the nature and potential of creative freedom in video game development. The inquiry is situated in the context of the emergence of independ... Read More about The conditions of videogame production: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity.

Creativity and the problem of automation (2020)
Book Chapter

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.

Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

War, mathematics, and simulation: Drones and (losing) control of battlespace (2016)
Book Chapter

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.

Play (for) time (2015)
Book Chapter

Through their deployment of interactivity, virtualisation and simulation, videogames are prime examples of the contemporary form of what philosopher of technology, Bernard Stiegler, has termed the industrial temporal object. The experiences produced... Read More about Play (for) time.

Simulation games (2012)
Book Chapter

Entry on Simulation Games in an encyclopedia of video games.

Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine (2009)
Book Chapter

An essay exploring the cultural, aesthetic and ethical implications of using a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.

Wargaming and computer games: Fun with the future (2008)
Book Chapter

An essay exploring the historical influence of wargaming on contemporary computer gaming and the philosophical implications of this.

A conversation on the efficacies of the game engine to address notions of sacred space: The digital songlines project and transgressions of sacredness (2008)
Book Chapter

A conference paper exploring issues arising from the experimental use of a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.

Logistical space: Flight simulation and virtual reality (2007)
Book Chapter

This paper looks at the history of flight simulation technology as a key instance of the logistics of vision (Virilio) bringing about a preemptive reanimation of the world first developed in military training context, and disseminated by its contribu... Read More about Logistical space: Flight simulation and virtual reality.

Gametime: History, narrative and temporality in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 (2003)
Book Chapter

This essay looks at the relations between narrative and ludic structuring of video game play experience through a comparison between a video game and a film that deal with the history of air war in the Pacific theatre during World War II.

Videogames, war and operational aesthetics
Book Chapter

This essay in a large collection of work exploring the visual representation of conflict examines videogames for their particular modes and logics of representation, which entail and operational, interactive and configurative character that has some... Read More about Videogames, war and operational aesthetics.

The experience of the industrial temporal object
Book Chapter

In Technics and Time 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise, Bernard Stiegler elaborates his notion of the industrial temporal object in order to characterise the nature of modern industrially produced media forms. This essay will examine Stie... Read More about The experience of the industrial temporal object.