Outputs (360)

Acting Out (2008)
Book

The book translates two essays by Bernard Stiegler concerning his pathway to studying philosophy, his interest in an engaged philosophical practice relevant to the contemporary world, and his analysis of significant social and cultural problems relat... Read More about Acting Out.

Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra (2007)
Journal Article

This article rethinks concepts of the simulational and the simulacral for popular digital culture. It plays concepts of the modern world as hyperreal against the more modest, pragmatic, but vital, insights of game studies into the literally simulatio... Read More about Dionysiac machines: Videogames and the triumph of the simulacra.

Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As technologies of communication and creativity become more deeply embedded into the fabric of our every day lives understanding subjectivity becomes a matter of understanding people's individual relation to technics as much as understanding class, r... Read More about Technicity and identity in the age of user-generated content.

Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series (2007)
Journal Article

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.

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.

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)
Journal Article

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.

Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games (2006)
Journal Article

The academic study of computer and video games is a rapidly growing multinational and multidisciplinary field. The first UK international conference on computer games in 2001, a UWE event organised by Helen Kennedy and Jon Dovey at the Watershed Medi... Read More about Just gaming? Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy on studying games.

Playing with non-humans: digital games as techno-cultural form (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Game studies has yet to engage with a sustained debate on the implications of its fundamentally technologically based foundation – i.e. the ‘digitality’ of digital games. This essay calls for such a debate and offers some initial thoughts on issues a... Read More about Playing with non-humans: digital games as techno-cultural form.

The game thing: Ludology and other theory games (2004)
Journal Article

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.

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.

black.white (2002)
Exhibition / Performance

Script for performance.

Conference review: "Face to face and the globally connected? 'Community' in the network society" (2002)
Journal Article

Theory of state deleuze, guattari and virilio on the state, technology and speed (1999)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

The Sacconi Quartet - Beethoven 132 at the Bristol Proms
Digital Artefact

An innovative immersive film experiment with the Sacconi String Quartet for the 2104 Bristol Proms. The Quartet performed Beethoven's Opus 132 in the intimate setting of the Studio Theatre, with the audience sitting in the round. The performance was... Read More about The Sacconi Quartet - Beethoven 132 at the Bristol Proms.

Playful interactions: A critical inquiry into interactive art and play
Thesis

My practice-based doctoral research explores how I, as an artist, can create conditions and possibilities for playful interaction in and around interactive artworks. Using practice- based research methods four artworks were created, presented and exa... Read More about Playful interactions: A critical inquiry into interactive art and play.

Closed circuit, live performance, Newseum, Washington DC, 10 September 2014. As part of the British Council Culture & Conflict Summit
Digital Artefact

2014 - Closed Circuit live performance at Newseum, Washington DC, 10 September 2014. As part of the British Council Culture & Conflict Summit

http://www.roddickinson.net/pages/closedcircuit/

The Russian winter: Live multimedia show
Digital Artefact

An album, a film and a stage show, inspired by Bulgakov's Master and Margarita, in which the Devil comes to Bristol to play havoc on the complacent and disillusioned. Three night sell out show held at the Lantern, Colston Hall from 23-25th January 20... Read More about The Russian winter: Live multimedia show.

In light of moving images: technology, creativity and lighting in cinematography
Thesis

Thesis
This practice-led doctoral research examines lighting techniques used by cinematographers and more widely amongst practitioners working with moving imagery. The widespread adoption of digital technologies in the film production industry has r... Read More about In light of moving images: technology, creativity and lighting in cinematography.

“Happy consensual gangbangs”: Deconstructions of sports cultures and hegemonic masculinity in football RPF
Book Chapter

This paper uses a close reading of two stories within the gangbang/team sex subgenre of Football Real Person Fiction to investigate how marginalized sports fans can use fan fiction to negotiate the challenges posed to them by hegemonic masculinity wi... Read More about “Happy consensual gangbangs”: Deconstructions of sports cultures and hegemonic masculinity in football RPF.