Steve Goodman is a Lecturer in Music Culture in the School of Humanities and Social Sciencesat the University of East London. He runs the MA Sonic Culture and is currently writing a book entitled ‘Sonic Warfare’ due for publication on MIT Press 2009. The book is a theoretical investigation of the intersection between war and sonic culture. He is a member of the autonomous research collective, the Ccru (Cybernetic Culture Research Unit), runs the record label Hyperdub, and produces electronic music under various guises.

Shortform CV

Qualifications

• 1999, Ph.D in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick.

Previous posts held

• 2001 - 2002, Visiting Lecturer in Digital Media, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Hertfordshire
• 1998, Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick.

• Cybernetic Culture
• Sonic Culture
• Diasporic futurisms
• Abstract Materialism

• PA2304 – Sound Design 2
• PA3304 - Sound Design 3
• MSM502 - MA Audiovision
• MSM526 - MA Sonic Culture
• CC2801 - Music Technology, Creativity, Markets

  Supervision of research students (PhD)

• Stamatia Portonova - (completed) 'Autopo(i)etics - audiovisual stratifications and the active space of video.
• Joy Roles - sonic branding, memory, emotion.
• James Trafford - nanotechnology, philosophy, intelligence.
• Eleni Ikoniadou - topologies of acoustic space.
• Toby Heys - sonic warfare .

All publications post 2001:

Monographs

• [forthcoming] Sonic Warfare: sound, affect and the ecology of fear, MIT Press 2009.

Book chapters

• [forthcoming] 'Machines of Memory' with L. Parisi in S. Radstone (ed.) Mapping Memory, Fordham University Press, 2008.
• [forthcoming] 'Audio Virology: on the sonic mnemonics of pre-emptive power' in C.Birdsall (ed.) Sonic Mediations: Body, Sound, Technology, Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
• [forthcoming] 'Contagious Noise: from digital glitches to audio viruses' in T. Sampson & Jussi Parikka (eds.) Spam Book: On Viruses, Spam and Other Anomalous Objects of Digital Culture, Hampton Press, 2008.
• 'Sonic Algorithms' and 'Timelines' in M.Fuller (ed.) Software Studies, MIT Press. 2008.
• 'Contagious Transmission: on the virology of pirate radio' in B. Labelle (ed.) Radio Territories, Errant Bodies, 2007.
• 'Sonic Anarchitecture', pp63-65 in A. Carlyle (ed.) Autumn Leaves: Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice, Double Entrendre Publications, Paris, 2007.
• 'The Affect of Nanoterror' with L. Parisi in Culture Machine Journal, Issue 7, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/fr_f1.htm, 2006.
• 'Speed Tribes: netwar, affective hacking and the audio-social' in F. Leibl (ed.) Cultural Hacking, Springern, 2005.

Periodical and newspaper articles

• 2002, 'The Age of Asymmetry' in Cyberhype, the Ccru column Mute magazine. Numerous features/reviews in FACT(uk) and xlr8r(us) electronic music magazines.

Conference papers

• 2007, July, 'Vibrational Anarchitecture' at Ubiquitous Media Conference, Theory Culture and Society, University of Tokyo, Japan.
• 2007, June, 'Rhythmic Anarchitecture' with Luciana Parisi at The Space of Flows Conference, University of Newcastle.
• 2007, June, 'Sonic Warfare' at Urban Audiologies, Goldsmiths College, London.
• 2006, June, 'Mnemonic Control' at Futura Naturale, University of Naples.
• 2004, March, 'Rhythm out of Noise' at Noise/Theory/Noise Symposium University of Middlesex
• 2003, July, 'Audio Virology: the epidemiology of sound', Sonic Synergies Conference, University of South Australia
• 2002, January, 'Sonic Warfare', Oslo centre for Architecture and Design
• 2001, 'Hyperdub Cartography' @ Speed Tribe v.1, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Media/art outputs

• 'Last 3 Digits' Sound workincluded with B. Labelle (ed.) Radio Territories, Errant Bodies 2007.
• 'Sonic Warfare: the logistics of affection', catalogue text for Arsenal:artists explorations of sound as a weapon, Alma Enterprises, Hackney, 2006.

Key publications pre 2001:

Editorships/panel committee memberships