Andrew Murphie's Publications

2003 Culture and Technology (co-authored with John Potts) (London:Palgrave)

Articles and Book Chapters

(forthcoming) 'Deleuze, Guattari and Neuroscience' in Gaffney, Peter (ed.) Deleuze, Science and the Force of the Virtual Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

(forthcoming) 'Performance as the Distribution of Life: from Aeschylus to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari' in Cull, Laura (ed.) Deleuze and Performance Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press

(forthcoming, 2008/2009) 'Joyce Hinterding and David Haines: High Res Resonations with the Milky Way' ACM Computers in Entertainment

(forthcoming) with Lone Bertelsen 'An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers: Félix Guattari on Affect and the Refrain' in Gregg, Melissa and Seigworth, Greg (eds.) The Affect Reader

2008 (forthcoming) 'Ghosted Publics - the "unacknowledged collective" in the contemporary transformation of the circulation of ideas' in Nat Muller and Alessandro Ludovico (eds.) Mag.net3

2008 (forthcoming, with Mat Wall-Smith and Ross Harley) 'Last.fm and the Music Multiverse', The Art of Record Production. Brisbane, December 2007, Conference Proceedings.

2008 'Clone Your Technics: Research creation, radical empiricism and the constraints of models', in Inflexions: A journal for research-creation 1(1)

2008 with Ross Harley 'Australian Electronica: A Brief History' in Shane Homan and Tony Mitchell (eds.) Sounds of then, Sound of Now: Popular Music in Australia Hobart; Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies: 93-111

2008 with Adrian Mackenzie 'The Two Cultures Become Multiple? Sciences, Humanities and Everyday Experimentation' in Australian Feminist Studies, Special Issue on Science and Culture 22(5): 87-100

2008 with Ross Harley 'Electronica in Australia', Music in Australia Knowledge Base

2007 'Mobility, Work and Love' in Hjorth, Larissa waiting for immediacy IDP Printers/ Yonsei University: 16-19 (blog version here)

2007 with Ross Harley 'Australian Electronica: A Brief History' in Culture Machine, 9

2007 'The Fallen Present: Time in the Mix' in Hassan, Robert and Purser, Ron (eds.) 24/7:Time in the Network Society Stanford: Standford University Press

2007 (with Anna Munster) 'Assembling Collective Thought' in Aminima, 20: 88-97 (Spanish and English)

2007 'Struck', Catalog essay for Michele Barker and Anna Munster's video installation Struck at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

2006 '"Brain-Magic": Figures of the Brain, Technology and Magic' in Edward Scheer and John Potts (eds.) Technology and Magic (Power:Sydney): 112-124

2006 'Vibrations in the Air: performance as interactive technics' in Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall (eds.) The End of the 60s: Performance, Media and Contemporary Culture Performance Paradigm Publications (republication): 98-112

2006 'Locating Media Tyrannies' (review of Matthew Fuller's Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture) American Book Review 27:4:32

2006 [as Enrdju Merfijs] "Izplatiba Un Salikums Dzoisa Hinterdingas Un Deivia Heinsa Darbos" in Terra: Saistosi Par Dabaszinatnem Un Tehnologijam, July/August:40-42 (Latvian translation of work I have done on the Australian artists Joyce Hinterding and David Haines)

2005 'The Mutation of "Cognition" and the Fracturing of Modernity: cognitive technics, extended mind and cultural crisis', Scan 2, 2 (September) [Special issue on memory, media, and embodied cognition]

2005 'Differential Life, Perception and the Nervous Elements: Whitehead, Bergson and Virno on the Technics of Living', Culture Machine 7

2005 'Vibrations in the Air: performance as interactive technics', Performance Paradigm 1

2004 'Life Already: Interaction as the Enjoyment of Assemblage'. Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory, University of Technology, Sydney, Creativity and Cognition Studios Press: 305-327.

2004 'The World as Clock: The Network Society and Experimental Ecologies' (on Lars Von Trier's Verdensuret, media and other ecologies, Guattari and lobsters) in Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring, special issue on technology and culture: 117-139

2004 'Vertiginous Mediations: sketches for a dynamic pluralism in the study' Media International Australia February, 110:73-95

2003 'When Fibre Meets Fibre: networking as ritual meeting of body, brain' in M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture [ 'Fibre' issue] 6, 4.

2003 'Negotiating Presence:Performance and New Technologies' in Philip Auslander (ed.) Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies London:Routledge

2003 'Electronicas: Differential Media and Proliferating, Transient Worlds', fineart forum 17:8 August. (republication)

2003 'Electronicas: Differential Media and Proliferating, Transient Worlds'. Proceedings of the Fifth International Digital Arts and Culture Conference. RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. May 19 - 23, 2003.

2003 'The Enchantments of Cultural History: A Review of Simon During's Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic', Australian Humanities Review

2003 'The Electronica Presence of Absence: Remediating Media Theory' (review of Jeffrey Sconce's Hauted Media), Theory & Event 7(1)

2002 'Putting the Virtual back into VR', in Brian Massumi (ed.) A Shock to Thought: expression in the philosophy of gilles deleuze and felix guattari (London:Routledge) (republication).

2001 'Is Philosophy Ever Enough?' (extended review of Gregory Flaxman's The Brain is the Screen:Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema ) on the very grand Film-Philosophy Site v5, n38

2001 'A Requiem for Postmodernism: The New Media Adjusters from Sokal to Starship Troopers' in McKenzie Wark (ed) Thinking Media (Sydney:Pluto)

2000 'Computers are not Theatre: The Machine in the Ghost in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's thought', a reprint of the article below, in Gary Genosko, (ed.) Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers London:Routledge

2000 'Sound at the end of the world as we know it: Nick Cave, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and a Deleuze-Guattarian ecology of popular music', a reprint of the article below, in Gary Genosko, (ed.) Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers London:Routledge

2000 'The Dusk of the Digital is the Dawn of the Virtual' in Enculturation 3:1 (Post-Digital issue) at (on the virtual, digital, Stelarc and Rebecca Horn)

1998 'Flowing - theories and taboos in Popular Music Studies' in Perfect Beat: the pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture v3 n4, January:85-92

1998 'I'm Not Joking --Lacanian Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To Be' a review of Zizek's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) on the very grand Film-Philosophy Site

1997 'Editorial: Machinic Theory' in Convergence: the Journal of Research into New Media Technologies v3 n2, Summer:5-8 (for an issue I edited)

1997-1998 'Putting the Virtual back into VR' in Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature: Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, an issue on Deleuze, Guattari and expression.

1996 'Computers are not Theatre: The Machine in the Ghost in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's thought' in Convergence: the Journal of Research into New Media Technologies v2 n2, Autumn:80-110

1996 'Sound at the end of the world as we know it: Nick Cave, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire and a Deleuze-Guattarian ecology of popular music' in Perfect Beat: the pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture v2 n4, January:18-42

1992 with Edward Scheer, 'Capital, Culture and Simulation - Dance Parties in Sydney from 1985-1990' in Hayward, Philip From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism Allen and Unwin, Sydney

1990 'Negotiating Presence: Performance and New Technologies' in Hayward, Philip (ed.) Culture, Technology and Creativity: in the late twentieth century John Libbey, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

1988 'The Body in Performance: Small Moments in Cultural Production' Spectator Burns 2:63-71 (on Deleuze, Guattari, the body and performance)

1987 'Lost in the Fatherland: Naturalism, Theatre and the Body' Spectator Burns 1:10-23 (on gender issues, Lacan and Ibsen)

Conference Papers/Presentations/Art

2008 (September 2) 'Open? Access? Publishing?: a new world for humanities publishing is a new world for the humanities' at the Digital Humanities: Past, Present, Future sympoisum, Centre for Culltural Research, University of Western Sydney

2007 (December 14) '14 theses and 21 ghosts for locative and mobile media', The Poetics of Mobilities Symposium, Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2007 (October 2) 'The Virtual, Interactive Design and Cognitive Models' Kolding Designskolen, Denmark

2006 (November 29) 'Auditland: Education and Cognitive Labour' at a workshop run by the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University on "The Concept of Labour".

2006 [with Anna Munster] (August 12) 'assemblage for collective thought (act)' VJ/DJ performance at ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge / 13th International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA2006)

2006 (June 21) 'Hebbing the System (with Bernays Sauce): the new technics of brain-body performance' Critical and Cultural studies Corpographies Seminar series, Macquarie University Sydney

2006 (May 4) 'Thought and 'Cognition' - New-ish Orders, Virtual Cognition and the Possibility of a Radical Empiricism' UTS Cultural Studies Research Group, Sydney.

2005 (October 24) 'Virtual cognition, politics and the mutation of the modern' Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics seminar series, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2005 (July 9) 'Hacking the Aesthetic: Distributed Aesthetics in the work of Joyce Hinterding and David Haines' Transforming Aesthetics conference, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

2005 (June 15) 'Virtual Cognition and the Forces that Constitute Microbrains' Australian Society for Continental Philosophy conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

2004 (December 3) 'Media, Cognition, Life: The mutation of ‘cognition’ and the end of ‘modern culture’' - Memory, Media and Social Theory workshop, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney.

2004 (November) 'Life Already - Interaction as the Enjoyment of Assemblage' - Interaction, Systems, Practice and Theory, a Creativity and Cognition symposium hosted by the Dynamic Design Research Group, University of Technology, Sydney.

2004 'Ants' Nests and Tea Ceremonies: space, synthesis and memory within network ecologies', Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne.

2004 (with Mat Wall-Smith, September 15) 'Always Living, Sometimes Conscious: Thinking Network Ecologies', Schools of Media and Theatre, Film and Dance, University of New South Wales, September 15.

2003 'Virtual and Differential Ecologies' - Biophilosophy and the Politics of Life, the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, July

2003 'Electronicas: Differential Media and Proliferating, Transient World' StreamingWorlds - Digital Arts and Culture, Melbourne, May

2002 'The World's Acid: Emergence and Structure within the Digital Aesthetics' at the Strange Weather conference, November, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (on Lars Von Trier's Verdensuret and the digital aesthetic).

2002 'Becomings of a Spiritual Automaton: Deleuze, Film and New Media' (on Deleuze's Cinema 2 and computer media) at the Deleuze and Cinema conference, September, University of New South Wales.

2000 'Another Fine Mesh: The Threshold of Absolute Immanence' at the Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference, Sydney, November

1998 'Getting in Touch: touch, lost horizons and the problem of the transcendent/immanent distinction in film, philosophy and the Internet' at the Australasian Association of Philosophy conference, Sydney, July.

1996 'Becoming-Minor and the web' at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Rotterdam, September, 1996.

1987 'Softbody' Politics of the Body conference, The Performance Space, Sydney.