Patrick Crogan's Outputs (21)

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.

Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy (2012)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture (2011)
Book

From flight simulators and first-person shooters to MMPOG and innovative strategy games like 2008’s Spore, computer games owe their development to computer simulation and imaging produced by and for the military during the Cold War. To understand the... Read More about Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture.

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.

Tracing the logics of contemporary digital media culture (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An essay exploring the development of computer-based simulation and virtual reality technologies in Cold war America, and its implications for understanding contemporary digital media culture.

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.

Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, vol 4., no. 2 (April 2009), Special Section on games and technology (2009)
Other

This special section, co-edited by Patrick Crogan and Helen Kennedy, comprised the majority of this issue of Games and Culture and was derived from a UWE Play Research Group one day symposium held in September 2006.

Technologies between games and culture (2009)
Journal Article

This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relat... Read More about Technologies between games and culture.

The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister (2009)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
Journal Article

In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

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.

Pigs, eels and insects: Re-assessing the legacy of Shohei Imamura. 15 October - 8 November 2009.
Other

This retrospective festival took place in October and November, 2009 at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was co-curated by Patrick Crogan, Jasper Sharp and Alastair Cameron. 8 Films by the dual Palme d'Or winning Japanese filmmaker were screened.... Read More about Pigs, eels and insects: Re-assessing the legacy of Shohei Imamura. 15 October - 8 November 2009..