All Outputs (6)

Simulation, history and experience in Oshii’s Avalon and military-entertainment technoculture (2010)
Journal Article

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.

Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This conference was funded by the European Science Foundation and took place in September 6-9, 2010 in Linkoping, Sweden. It was co-convened by Jonathan Dovey and Patrick Crogan of UWE's Digital Cultures Research Centre. Keynote speakers were Bernard... Read More about Chairs for Paying attention: digital media cultures and generational responsibility.

Cultural Politics vol 6., no. 2 (July 2010): Special Issue on Bernard Stiegler (2010)
Other

This special issue of Cultural Politics journal was guest edited by Patrick Crogan, who contributed also the introductory essay and an interview with Bernard Stiegler.

Knowledge, care and trans-individuation: An interview with Bernard Stiegler (2010)
Journal Article

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.

Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, technics, activism (2010)
Journal Article

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.

The Nintendo Wii, virtualisation and gestural analogics (2010)
Journal Article

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.