RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Media theory
• Cultural studies and cultural politics
• Continental philosophy - including the work of Jacques Derrida
• Digital media and new technologies - including piracy, peer-to-peer file-sharing, IP and the gift economy
• Digital humanities
  
• Open-access publishing and archiving
• The idea of the university

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• (2002) Culture In Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory (London and New York: Continuum)
• (2006) New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) - co-edited with Clare Birchall. A US edition of this book was published by the University of Georgia Press in March 2007; a South Asian edition by Orient Longman in October 2007. A Turkish translation is due to appear from Ayrac, with Nanjing University Press bringing out a Chinese translation.
• (2007) Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press) - co-edited with Simon Morgan Wortham. (Collection on the work of the influential US-based theorist of literature and technology)
• (2008) Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press) 
• (2009) New Cultural Studies: The Liquid Theory Reader – edited with Clare Birchall (published in the Culture Machine Liquid Books series) (digital book)
  

• Media Gifts (one third written, estimated completion date Winter 2009)

• (2009) ‘Cultural Studies Now/here: How Theory Can Save Us (Still)’ (with Clare Birchall), in Renewing Cultural Studies: The Way Ahead, edited by Paul Smith (Temple University Press, forthcoming).
• (2009) ‘The Open Scholarship Full Disclosure Initiative: A Subversive Proposal’, Against the Grain (June).
• (2009), ‘Experiments of the Stelarc-Machine’ (with Joanna Zylinska) in Stelarc Mechaniques du Corps/Body Mechanics, retrospective catalogue for exhibition at Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France, April - consists of 13,000 word essay and interview with Stelarc published simultaneously in French and English.
  
• (2009) ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 1.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Free Content, Free/Libre/Open Media’, Culture Machine, Vol. 10.
• (2008) ‘WikiNation: On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East’, Cultural Politics, Vol. 5, No 1 (pp. 5-26). 
• (2007) 'IT, Again: Or, How to Build an Ethical Virtual Institution', in Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall (eds) Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press). A German translation of this article was published in the special issue of the journal Paragrana: Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie, Medien – Kőrper – Imagination, edited by Mark Poster and Christoph Wulf, 17.1 (2008).
• (2007) 'Experimenting with Samuel Weber' (with Simon Morgan Wortham), in Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall (eds) Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber (New York: Fordham University Press).
• (2007) 'The Politics of Secrecy: Cultural Studies and Derrida in the Age of Empire', Cultural Studies, Vol. 21 No 1 (January).
• (2006) 'Coca-colonised Thinking?', The Oxford Literary Review, 28.
• (2006) 'Cultural Studies and Deconstruction', in Gary Hall and Clare Birchall (eds), New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press).
• (2006), 'New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (Some Comments, Clarifications, Explanations, Observations, Recommendations, Remarks, Statements and Suggestions)' (with Clare Birchall), in New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, edited by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall (Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh).
• (2004) 'Slashdoc', Culture Machine 6.
• (2004) 'Why You Can't Do Cultural Studies and Be a Derridean: Cultural Studies After Birmingham, the New Social Movements and the New Left', Culture Machine 6.
• (2004) 'Digitise This', The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Vol.26, No.1, January-March.
• (2003) 'Digitise This', Mediactive, Vol.1, No.1.
• (2003) 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project (Original Pirate Copy)', Culture Machine 5.
• (2002) 'Para-site', in The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, edited by Joanna Zylinska (Continuum: London and New York).
• (1998) 'Beyond Marxism and Psychoanalysis' in Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires, edited by Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord (Taylor and Francis: London and New York).
• (2000) 'Prospectus', Culture Machine 2.
• (1999) 'www.culturalstudies.ac.uk', The Oxford Literary Review, 21.
• (1999) 'This is a Test', Culture Machine 1.
• (1996) 'Answering the Question: "What is an Intellectual?"', Surfaces, Vol. VI
• (1996) '"It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate": Why Cultural Studies Is So "Naff"', Angelaki, 2:2.
• (1996) 'Interdisciplinarity and Its Discontents', Angelaki, 2:2. (with Simon Wortham).
• (1996) 'Asking the Question: "What is an Intellectual?"', Parallax, Vol.1, No. 2.

Edited Journal Issues

• (2009) Pirate Philosophy, special 10th anniversary issue of the journal Culture Machine 10.
• (2004) Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies, Culture Machine 6 (co-edited with Dave Boothroyd and Joanna Zylinska). Includes contributions from Peggy Kamuf, Mark Hansen, Paul Bowman, Clare Birchall, Stefan Herbrechter and Jeremy Gilbert.
• (2003) The e-Issue, Culture Machine 5. Includes contributions from N. Katherine Hayles, Mark Amerika, Cathryn Vasseleu, Anna Munster, Chris Chesher, Gregory L. Ulmer and Bernard Stiegler.
• (2000) The University Culture Machine, Culture Machine 2 (co-edited with Simon Morgan). Includes contributions from Jacques Derrida, Diane Elam, Henry Giroux, David Kolb, Ted Striphas, Stevan Harnad, Hal Varian and Samuel Weber.
• (1999) Taking Risks With the Future, Culture Machine 1 (co-edited with Dave Boothroyd). Includes contributions from Lawrence Grossberg, Sue Golding, Timothy Clark, Jan Campbell, Ken Surin and Michael Naas.
• (1996) Authorizing Culture (co-edited with Simon Morgan), Angelaki, 2:2. Includes contributions from Robert J. C. Young, Graham Dawson and Homi K. Bhabha.

Interviews

• (2003) 'Talking Prosthetic Heads: Listening to Stelarc', Live Art Letters (with Joanna Zylinska).
• (2002) 'Probings: an Interview with Stelarc' (with Joanna Zylinska). In The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, edited by Joanna Zylinska (London and New York: Continuum).
• (2001) 'Responding: A Discussion with Samuel Weber', Culture Machine, InterZone (with Simon Morgan Wortham). Republished in The South Atlantic Quarterly 101:3, Summer 2002, in Simon Morgan Wortham (2003) Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading (Hampshire: Ashgate) and in Samuel Weber (2005) Theatricality as Medium (New York: Fordham University Press).
• (1996) 'Rethinking Authority: An Interview with Homi K. Bhabha', Angelaki, 2:2 (with Simon Morgan).

Published Conference Proceedings

• (2008) ‘Hyper-Cyprus’, proceedings of the Second International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, May 2-4, 2007.
• (2007) 'Beyond Impact: OA in the Humanities' (with Sigi Jottkandt), 'How to Increase Your Impact with Open Access', Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brussels, 13 February.
• (2002) 'The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving', The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, edited by John Frow, Old College, University of Edinburgh.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Co-founder of Open Humanities Press (OHP), the first open-access publishing house dedicated to contemporary critical and cultural theory. OHP was established in 2006 and launched in 2008 by an international group of scholars in response to the perceived crisis in academic publishing. OHP’s board includes Alain Badiou, Gert Buelens, Barbara Cohen, Tom Cohen, Steven Connor, Denise Troll Covey, Jonathan Culler, Mark Davis, Ortwin de Graef, Wlad Godzich, Stephen Greenblatt, Lawrence Grossberg, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Katie King, Douglas Kellner, Kyoo Lee, Alan Liu, J. Hillis Miller, Jerome McGann, Antonio Negri, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Dany Nobus, István Rév, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Peter Suber, William B. Warner, John Willinsky. OHP was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education: see Jennifer Howard, ‘New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut’: Wednesday, May 7, 2008. An interview with Gary Hall discussing OHP was published by Tracey Caldwell as part of ‘OA in the Humanities Badlands’, Information World Review, 04 June, 2008. An OHP monograph series project, run in collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office, and the Public Knowledge Project headed by John Willinsky of Stanford University (which is currently developing an equivalent for monographs to their Open Journal Systems) is forthcoming. As a pilot, OHP is launching its monograph project with 4 book series: New Metaphysics, edited by Bruno Latour and Graham Harman; Critical Climate Change, edited by Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook, Global Conversations by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; and Liquid Books by Gary Hall and Clare Birchall.
• Series Editor of the Culture Machine book series (Oxford and New York: Berg), which brings together writers from relevant arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines: literary, critical and cultural theory; cultural, media and communication studies; new media; art history; anthropology; continental philosophy; sociology and political science. Recent and forthcoming titles in the Culture Machine book series include: · Clare Birchall, Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Celebrity Gossip; · Charlie Gere, Art, Time & Technology: A History of the Disappearing Body; · Jeremy Gilbert, Anti-Capitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and the Global Justice Movement; · Paul Virilio, City of Panic.
• Series Editor (with Chris Hables Gray) (2000 to 2004) Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory (London and New York: Continuum), a series of books in critical and cultural theory, media and cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and the history and philosophy of science. Publications in the Technologies series include: · Adrian Mackenzie (2002) Transductions: Bodies And Machines At Speed; · Joanna Zylinska, ed. (2002) The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age; · Graham MacPhee (2002) The Architecture of the Visible: Technologies of Urban Visual Culture; · David Tomas (2004) Beyond the Image Machine.
• Founder (with Dave Boothroyd) of Culture Machine, an international, online, peer-reviewed journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. Culture Machine's international editorial board includes Lawrence Grossberg, Peggy Kamuf, Alphonso Lingis, Meaghan Morris, Paul Patton and Avital Ronell. The journal provides an ideal opportunity to explore the possibilities and problems posed for research into cultural, sociological, aesthetic and political questions by new media technologies. Culture Machine was launched in February 1999. Distinguished contributors to Culture Machine include Alain Badiou, Simon Critchley, Jacques Derrida, Diane Elam, Henry A. Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg, N. Katherine Hayles, Peggy Kamuf, Ernesto Laclau, J. Hillis Miller, Mark Poster, Bernard Stiegler and Gregory L. Ulmer.
• Director of the cultural studies open access archive CSeARCH.
• Contributing Editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, awarded Best New Journal by the Modern Language Association of America's 1996 Council of Editors of Learned Journals and described Prof. Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex) as the 'most innovative and exciting new British journal in the field of literary and cultural theory to have appeared in recent years'.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Postgraduate English, an Internet journal designed to meet the needs of UK-based postgraduate students in English (launch - Jan. 2000).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Mediactive, a peer-reviewed journal in media and cultural studies published by Lawrence and Wishart.
• Member of the Editorial Board of Cultural Studies (Routledge/Taylor and Francis).
• Member of the Editorial Board of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)
• Member of the Editorial and Advisory Board of Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (Intellect) (launch March 2009)
  
• Member of the Steering Group of the Siobhan Davies Dance Digital Archive project, funded by an AHRC Resource Enhancement Scheme grant.
• Associate Member of the Creative Media Forum, based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Edu-Factory journal.
• Founder member of the Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals (established 2008). The NEIJ held its first conference, entitled ‘Interdisciplinary in the Arts and Humanities: Research, Publishing, Policy’ conference, at the Swedenborg Society, London, 20 March, 2009.
  

• (2010) plenary speaker at The Visual Culture Studies Conference I, organised by SUNY, Stony Brook; University of the Arts, London; New York University and University of Westminster, London and held at University of Westminster, May 27-29  (forthcoming).
• (2009) plenary speaker at the 1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing held by The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and the DOAJ/Lund University Libraries, Lund, Sweden, September 14-16.
• (2009) keynote speaker at ‘Solids States, Liquid Objects: Discourses of Mediation’ international symposium, Monash University, Australia, August 19. 
• (2009) invited speaker at Art Forum, Tasmanian School of Art – Hobart, University of Tasmania, August 14.
• (2009) invited speaker at the School of Visual and Performing Arts special event, Academy of the Arts – Launceston, University of Tasmania, August 11.
  
• (2009) Co-organiser of, and presenter at, a day-long series of sessions from the Open Humanities Press on open access monograph publishing, Second International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, Vancouver, Canada, July 8-10.
• (2009) invited plenary speaker at a new media seminar accompanying the Kurye International Video Festival, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2-12.
• (2009) keynote speaker at the on-line conference, 'Vocaciones contemporáneas del editor', with high-level editors organized by 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico, May.
• (2009) invited speaker, ‘Free, Libre, Open Media’, presented as part of the ‘Generation Net: Arts and Culture in the 21st Century’ guest speakers series, Nottingham University, April 23.
• (2009) invited speaker, ‘New Media Theory 3G’, Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, February 25.
• (2008) invited speaker, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, Research Centre for Digital Material Culture, University of Sussex, November 19.
• (2008) invited speaker, ‘Pirate Philosophy (Version 3.0): Open Access, Open Editing, Open Content, Open Media’, University of Durham, October 29.
• (2008) invited moderator at the ‘Sensual Technologies’ symposium, organised by Brunel University’s School of Arts and held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 27 June.
  
• (2008) ‘On Peace and Conflict in the Middle East’, ACS Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, The University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, July 3-7.
• (2008) invited speaker at a symposium ‘Cultural Studies Now', University of Heidelberg, May 6.
• (2008) invited speaker (paper, ‘Liquid Theory’), University of California Santa Barbara, April 4.
• (2008) invited speaker (paper, ‘Liquid Theory’), University of California Irvine, April 3. Podcast available at: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/humanitech/.
• (2008) invited speaker (paper, ‘Ten Questions for Cultural Studies Today’), University of California Los Angeles, April 2.
• (2008) keynote speaker (paper, ‘Cultural Studies and the Art of Making Trouble’) at ‘Troublemakers/Making Trouble: Strategies of Creative and Critical Engagement From Within the Academy’ conference, University of Greenwich, February 22.
• (2007) invited speaker (paper on 'The Intellectual'), Whitechapel Salon, a series of debates at The Whitechapel Gallery, London.
• (2007) invited speaker (paper, 'Open Access and the Humanities'), at the international conference, 'From Practice to Impact: Consequences of Knowledge Dissemination', Berlin 5 Open Access, Padua, Italy, organised by the Max Planck Institute and the University of Padua.
• (2007) keynote speaker at the Second International Conference in Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus.
• (2007) invited speaker on 'WikiNation', Istanbul Technical University, Bilgi, Istanbul, Turkey.
• (2007) invited speaker on 'The Politics of Memory and the Archive', at the 'Memory, Technicity and Time' symposium, University of East London.
• (2007) invited speaker on 'Post-politics', at the 'Do We Live in a Post World?' conference, University of Lower Silesia, Poland.
• (2007) 'The Singularity of New Media', 'Remediating Literature' conference, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
• (2007) invited to present on the CSeARCH open access archive project at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.
• (2006) invited plenary speaker on 'The Future of the University in the Age of Digital Reproduction', at the 'Panic and Paranoia' conference, Australian National University, Canberra School of Art, Australia.
• (2006) invited speaker on 'Ethics and New Media', Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• (2006) invited speaker on 'New Cultural Studies', University of Western Sydney, Australia.
• (2006) speaker in Westminster University's English Colloquia series on 'Unpacking the Library: Literatures and their Archives'.
• (2006) invited speaker alongside, among others, Prof. Douglas Kellner and Prof. Mark Poster at the Media, Body, Imagination conference series held at the University of California, Irvine, US and the Free University, Berlin, Germany, in March and Sept.
• (2005) 'The Future of the Humanities in a Virtual World: or, How to Build an Ethical Institution', Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics, University of Ghent, Belgium.
• (2005) 'New Cultural Studies', invited respondent to Professor Lawrence Grossberg's 'Caught in the Crossfire: Cultural Studies, Kids, and American Modernity', Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
• (2004) 'X-treme Cultural Studies', Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US.
• (2004) 'IT, Again', Virtual Materialities, International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, Syracuse University, US.
• (2004) invited speaker on 'Cultural Theory in the Age of Digital Reproduction', Research seminar at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, UK.
• (2004) invited speaker on 'Hypercyberdemocracy', The Information Society, Post-Modern Virtualities and Cyberdemocracy: Critical Engagements with Professor Mark Poster, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK.
• (2003) invited speaker on 'The Cultural Studies e-Archive Project: A Deconstructive Pragmatics of the Institution?', American Comparative Literature Association conference, San Marcos University, San Diego, US.
• (2003) 'Prosthetics: Technology and the Human', Prosthetics and the Human, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.
• (2002) 'The Politics and Ethics of Electronic Archiving', The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive, University of Edinburgh, UK.