All Outputs (50)

Dis-automation: Creative making with automation and AI (2022)
Journal Article

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.

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.

Unboxing the Black Box: Reflections on Making with AI and Automation (2020)
Book

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.

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.

Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth? (2019)
Journal Article

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

© 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

© 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

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 Contribution

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

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

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.

The automation of everyday life (2016)
Journal Article

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.

The good hubbing guide: Building indie game maker collectives (2015)
Report

This Guide comes from the activities of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Video Games Research Networking Scheme project, Creative Territories (2014-15). The project looked at the recent emergence of small and independent game maker collective... Read More about The good hubbing guide: Building indie game maker collectives.

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.

The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper assesses the political and global security implications of the use of automated weapon systems by several advanced industrial powers through a critical frame informed by the work of Bernard Stiegler, Gregoire Chamayou, Derek Gregory and ot... Read More about The decomposition of autonomy: Or, drones and global technicity.

Drones and global technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper (for General Organology conference, http://nootechnics.org/ ) will explore the expansion of military drone usage by Western powers in the “war on terror” over the last decade or so in relation to Bernard Stiegler’s organological approach t... Read More about Drones and global technicity.

The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is the text of a keynote presentation at the Philsophy of Computer Games 8: Freedom in Play conference held at Bilgi University, Istanbul in November 2014. It considers the implications of Bernard Stiegler's philosophy of technology for a critic... Read More about The conditions of production of video games: The nature and stakes of creative freedom in Stiegler’s philosophy of technicity.

Technology, technicity and time: Reanimating old questions for film and media theory in the wake of Stiegler’s philosophical activism (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This is the text of the keynote speech at the Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, May 2014. Stiegler's philosophy of technology and of media is examined for its potential to contribute to a reformulation of film and media studies in... Read More about Technology, technicity and time: Reanimating old questions for film and media theory in the wake of Stiegler’s philosophical activism.

Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

I offer here this short commentary on a section from Technics and Time 2’s final chapter, ‘Temporal Object and Retentional Finitude’ in which Stiegler engages in a lengthy meditation on Husserl’s account of primary and secondary retention—a meditatio... Read More about Passing, swirling, spinning: A brief note on Stiegler's post-phenomenological account of mediated experience.