Outputs (365)

Co-creative production (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation makes a number of proposals about how the current notion of 'co-creativity' (associated with the impact of digital media) supports new approaches to the analysis of visual culture and methodologies in media studies.

Co-creative design (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper is concerned with the need to understand creativity both as a general feature of cultural change (associated with the processes of cultural promiscuity and hybridisation), and as a form of cultural capital used in strategies of scoail dist... Read More about Co-creative design.

Intellectual capital, the knowledge economy, and the 'democratisation' of creative production (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper makes a series of observations which together suggest that, in the C21st, intellectual work needs to be understood as a means of participation in cultural life, and that the notion of the intellectual as a cultural leader has become obsole... Read More about Intellectual capital, the knowledge economy, and the 'democratisation' of creative production.

How and why do working-class women engage with the structures of (higher)education? (2008)
Thesis

The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice (2008)
Journal Article

This article is a discussion about the development of media practice both as a creative endeavour and as the collaborative interaction with audiences. It argues that innovations in media practice are dependent on the relationships between practitione... Read More about The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice.

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.