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'''Luciana Parisi''' is Reader in Cultural Studies and Director of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London. Her research focuses on philosophy and science to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change in culture, aesthetic and politics.  Specifically engaging with cybernetics, information theories, and evolutionary theories, her work analyses the radical transformations of the body, nature, matter and thought led by the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies and computation. In 2004, she published ''Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire'' (Continuum). She has also written within the field of media philosophy and analysed the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by digital media, the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and the nanoengineering of matter. She has published articles on the cybernetic re-wiring of memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media vis a vis strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. In 2013, she published ''Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space'' (MIT Press).
 
'''Luciana Parisi''' is Reader in Cultural Studies and Director of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London. Her research focuses on philosophy and science to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change in culture, aesthetic and politics.  Specifically engaging with cybernetics, information theories, and evolutionary theories, her work analyses the radical transformations of the body, nature, matter and thought led by the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies and computation. In 2004, she published ''Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire'' (Continuum). She has also written within the field of media philosophy and analysed the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by digital media, the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and the nanoengineering of matter. She has published articles on the cybernetic re-wiring of memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media vis a vis strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. In 2013, she published ''Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space'' (MIT Press).
  
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==Publications==
 
; Monographs
 
; Monographs
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=660 Abstract Sex. Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire]'', London and New York: Continuum, 2004.
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=660 Abstract Sex. Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire]'', London and New York: Continuum, 2004.
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13711 Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics and Space]'', MIT Press, 2013.  
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=18201 Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics and Space]'', MIT Press, 2013.  
  
 
; Book chapters, Papers, Essays
 
; Book chapters, Papers, Essays
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* with Stamatia Portanova, [http://computationalculture.net/article/soft-thought "Soft Thought (in Architecture and Choreography)"], ''Computational Culture'' 1 (Nov 2011).
 
* with Stamatia Portanova, [http://computationalculture.net/article/soft-thought "Soft Thought (in Architecture and Choreography)"], ''Computational Culture'' 1 (Nov 2011).
 
* with M.B. Fazi, "Do Algorithms Have Fun?", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13131 Fun and Software: 
Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing]'', ed. Olga Goriunova, London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
 
* with M.B. Fazi, "Do Algorithms Have Fun?", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=13131 Fun and Software: 
Exploring Pleasure, Pain and Paradox in Computing]'', ed. Olga Goriunova, London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
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* with Antonia Majaca, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/77/76322/the-incomputable-and-instrumental-possibility/ "The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility"], ''e-flux'' 77, Nov 2016.
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* [https://monoskop.org/media/text/hoerl_burton_eds_2017_general_ecology/#cha-2 "Computational Logic and Ecological Rationality"], in ''General Ecology: The New Ecological Paradigm'', eds. Erich Hörl and James Burton, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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* [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/155472/reprogramming-decisionism/ "Reprogramming Decisionism"], ''e-flux'' 85, New York, Oct 2017.
  
; Interviews
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==Interviews==
 
* with Matthew Fuller, [http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/luciana-parisi-interview/ "Luciana Parisi Interview"], 2004.
 
* with Matthew Fuller, [http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/luciana-parisi-interview/ "Luciana Parisi Interview"], 2004.
 
* with Erich Hörl, [http://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/was-hei%C3%9Ft-medien%C3%A4sthetik "Was heißt Medienästhetik?"], trans. Reiner Ansen and Erich Hörl, ''Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft'' 8 (2013), pp 35-51. {{de}}
 
* with Erich Hörl, [http://zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/text/was-hei%C3%9Ft-medien%C3%A4sthetik "Was heißt Medienästhetik?"], trans. Reiner Ansen and Erich Hörl, ''Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft'' 8 (2013), pp 35-51. {{de}}
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* Stanimir Panayotov, [http://figureground.org/interview-with-luciana-parisi/ "To Engineer the Time by Other Means. Interview with Luciana Parisi"], ''Figure/Ground'', Aug 2016.
  
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==Links==
 
* [http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/l-parisi/ Profile at Goldsmiths]
 
* [http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/l-parisi/ Profile at Goldsmiths]
* http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/LucianaParisi
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* [http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/LucianaParisi Academia.edu]
  
[[Category:Writers|Parisi, Luciana]]
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[[Category:Writers|Parisi, Luciana]] [[Category:Software studies|Parisi, Luciana]]
[[Category:Software studies|Parisi, Luciana]]
 

Revision as of 09:40, 6 October 2017

Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Studies and Director of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London. Her research focuses on philosophy and science to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change in culture, aesthetic and politics. Specifically engaging with cybernetics, information theories, and evolutionary theories, her work analyses the radical transformations of the body, nature, matter and thought led by the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies and computation. In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum). She has also written within the field of media philosophy and analysed the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by digital media, the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and the nanoengineering of matter. She has published articles on the cybernetic re-wiring of memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media vis a vis strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. In 2013, she published Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space (MIT Press).

Publications

Monographs
Book chapters, Papers, Essays

Interviews

Links