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Steve Goodman
Position: Lecturer in Music Culture, Programme Leader MA Sonic Culture
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School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London E16 2RD
Brief biography:
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.
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Activities/responsible for:
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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:
- Cybernetic Culture
- Sonic Culture
- Diasporic futurisms
- Abstract Materialism
Research / Publications:
Current research:
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.
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