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    Ambient Images
    with Sean Cubitt, Scott McQuire, Nikos Papastergiadis, Daniel Palmer, Jasmin Pfefferkorn, and Emilie K. Sunde
    Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 30 (61-62): 68-77. 2021.
  • World Order in History: Russia and the West
    with Paul Dukes
    Psychology Press. 1996.
    World Order in Historyargues that historians' ideas about world order have been influential in transforming nations' sense of themselves. Paul Dukes demonstrates how a series of successive historians and analysts attempt to make sense of the world in which they live, often appropriating intellectual ideas spawned in different contexts in order to do so. Hindsight allows us to view stages in the evolution of these interpretations, and to recognise that they are limited by the constraints of the a…Read more
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    Introduction: What Is the Empirical?
    with Lisa Adkins
    European Journal of Social Theory 12 (1): 5-20. 2009.
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    Introduction: The Becoming Topological of Culture
    with Luciana Parisi and Tiziana Terranova
    Theory, Culture and Society 29 (4-5): 3-35. 2012.
    In social and cultural theory, topology has been used to articulate changes in structures and spaces of power. In this introduction, we argue that culture itself is becoming topological. In particular, this ‘becoming topological’ can be identified in the significance of a new order of spatio-temporal continuity for forms of economic, political and cultural life today. This ordering emerges, sometimes without explicit coordination, in practices of sorting, naming, numbering, comparing, listing, a…Read more
  •  9
    Inventive Life
    with Mariam Fraser and Sarah Kember
    Theory, Culture and Society 22 (1): 1-14. 2005.
  •  10
    New Technologies of the Observer: #BringBack, Visualization and Disappearance
    with Sophie Day
    Theory, Culture and Society 34 (7-8): 51-74. 2017.
    This article explores two examples of non-visibility as a way of describing the specificity of contemporary surfaces of visualization. The two cases are the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the scheduled passenger flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, which lost contact with air traffic control on 8 March 2014 at 01:20 MYT, and the 276 Nigerian girls who went ‘missing’ at about the same time. The analysis is developed through an exploration of these examples in terms of the patterni…Read more
  •  14
    Algorithmic Personalization as a Mode of Individuation
    Theory, Culture and Society 36 (2): 17-37. 2019.
    Recognizing that many of the modern categories with which we think about people and their activities were put in place through the use of numbers, we ask how numbering practices compose contemporary sociality. Focusing on particular forms of algorithmic personalization, we describe a pathway of a-typical individuation in which repeated and recursive tracking is used to create partial orders in which individuals are always more and less than one. Algorithmic personalization describes a mode of nu…Read more
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    Off-centre: feminism and cultural studies (edited book)
    with Sarah Franklin and Jackie Stacey
    HarperCollins Academic. 1991.
    This indispensible collection brings together feminist theory and cultural studies, looking at issues such as pop culture and the media, science and technology, ...
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    Feminism, Marxism and Thatcherism
    with Sarah Franklin and Jackie Stacey
    In Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury & Jackie Stacey (eds.), Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies, Harpercollins Academic. pp. 21--46. 1991.
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    This article addresses how it is possible to view Damien Hirst as a brand name. It argues that the brand name is not the mark of an originary relation between producer and product but of a set of highly mediated relations between products. In a discussion of the spot paintings, the process of mediation is seen to contribute to the open-endedness of the relations between products or works established in Hirst’s practice. This open-endedness contributes to the distinctiveness of the Hirst brand na…Read more
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    Inventive life: approaches to the new vitalism (edited book)
    with Mariam Fraser and Sarah Kember
    SAGE. 2006.
    This book demonstrates how and why vitalism—the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism—matters now. Vitalism resists closure and reductionism in the life sciences while simultaneously addressing the object of life itself. The aim of this collection is to consider the questions that vitalism makes it possible to ask: questions about the role and status of life across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities and questions about contingency, indeterminacy, relational…Read more
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    Celia Lury describes the body's ability to act outside itself both mechanically and perceptually. She draws on a wide range of examples including phototherapy, accounts of false memory syndrome, family albums and Benetton adverts.
  •  5
    Inventive Life
    with Mariam Fraser and Sarah Kember
    Theory, Culture and Society 22 (1): 1-14. 2005.
  • Reading the self: autobiography, gender and the institution of the literary
    In Sarah Franklin, Celia Lury & Jackie Stacey (eds.), Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies, Harpercollins Academic. pp. 97--108. 1991.