Andrew Goffey
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communications
Department: School of Arts and Education
Contact
- Telephone: 020 8411 2216
- E-mail: A.Goffey@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
BA (Joint Hons.) Communication Studies and Sociology (University of London)
MSc Intelligent Systems (University of Sussex)
PhD Philosophy A Logic of Multiplicities. The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (University of London - Université de Paris - X Nanterre)
Research Interests
My research is interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary in nature. I work on the grey areas between media, philosophy, science and technology studies and politics. My interests include: the role of digital technologies, and more specifically, software, in shaping contemporary culture; changing forms of media and cultural practice; methods and forms of cultural analysis, micropolitics, untranslateability.
As a founding editor of the journal Computational Culture(http://computationalculture.net). I am particularly interested in exploring ways in which computer technologies and culture are entangled, and I have a more general interest in ethics.
Current and Past Research Projects
Recent projects of mine include Evil Media, a book co-authored with Matthew Fuller, for MIT Press, an edited collection of essays on Felix Guattari (The Guattari Effect for Continuum) and translations of Isabelle Stengers and Philippe Pignarre's Capitalist Sorcery (Palgrave) and Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Cartographies (Continuum, forthcoming).
I am currently editing a collection of essays on Alfred North Whitehead, writing a book on the micropolitics of software culture, and developing a collaborative project on the globalisation of creativity through higher education. I have also been working with the organisation Transeuropeans on their project to map translation practices throughout the Mediterranean-European region (www.transeuropeennes.eu).
Teaching Interests
I teach on a range of modules in the Media Department, for undergraduates on programmes in journalism and communication, advertising, PR and media, publishing, media and cultural studies and television production. I also teach postgraduate students on a masters programme in creative technology. At present, I teach ethics, the history of and contemporary challenges to journalism, research methods and dissertation students, design practices and creative industry work. I also supervise a number of PhD students.
Biography
Positions
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communications
Programme Leader in Journalism and Communications
Programme Leader in Creative Technology
Research convenor, UoA36
Link tutor to MSA University, Cairo
Selected Publications
Books
A. Goffey and M. Fuller (2012) Evil Media (Cambridge MA: MIT Press).
A. Goffey and E. Alliez (eds.) (2011) The Guattari Effect (London: Continuum).
Chapters in Books
A. Goffey and M. Fuller (2009) ‘Towards an Evil Media Studies’ in J. Parikka and T. Sampson (eds.) The Spam Book (Cresskill NJ: Hampton Press).
A. Goffey (2009) ‘Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, or: Keep Taking the Tablets’ in Proud to Be Flesh. The Mute Reader (London: Mute).
A. Goffey and M. Fuller (2010) ‘The Usefulness of Anxiety’ in Sarai New Media Collective The Sarai Reader 7: Fear (New Delhi: Sarai).
A. Goffey (2011) ‘The Witch’s Broomstick’ in I. Stengers and P. Pignarre Capitalist Sorcery (London: Palgrave).
Refereed Journal Articles
A. Goffey (2008) 'Abstract Experience' Theory, Culture and Society 25:4.
A. Goffey (2008) 'Thinking With as a Process of Active Experimentation' Process Studies 37:2.
A. Goffey and M. Fuller (2012) ‘Digital Infrastructures and the Machinery of Topological Abstraction’ Theory, Culture and Society special issue on ‘Topology and Culture’.
A. Goffey and M. Fuller (2012) 'Die Obskuren Objekte der Objektorientierung’ in Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 6
Translations of Books
I. Stengers and P. Pignarre (2011) Capitalist Sorcery (London: Palgrave).
F. Guattari (2012) Schizoanalytic Cartographies (London: Continuum).
Translations of Journal Articles
E. Alliez (2009) 'Body without Image: Ernesto Neto's Anti-Leviathan' Radical Philosophy 156.
I. Stengers (2009) 'William James: An Ethics of Thought?' Radical Philosophy 157.
B. Cassin (2010) 'Sophistics, Rhetorics, Performance' in Philosophy and Rhetoric 43:1.
Research Supervision
Director of Studies
Ben Little Comic Books, Politics and Readers (2005 – 2010).
Kerstin Mueller The Revival of a City. Reimagining New Orleans through US Television and its Media Paratexts (October 2011 - present). Kerstin has one of only three AHRC scholarships allocated for PhD research in cultural studies in 2011
Second Supervisor
Chryssa Sdrolia Machinic Thought: Towards an Ethology of Mental Heterogeneity (Goldsmiths College, 2009 – present).
Masa Kosugi On Mass Thought and Database Systems: Thinking with Deleuze’s Bergson (Goldsmiths College, 2009 – present)
Languages spoken
French
