Dr John Armitage - Head of Department
BA (Hons) Political Studies (University of Leeds)PhD Hypermodernism (Northumbria University)
Personal InterestsMy main research and teaching interests are in the areas of critical and cultural theory, new media and information communications technologies, cultural studies, visual culture, modernism, and postmodernism. Research
I am the founder and co-editor, with Dr Ryan Bishop (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Douglas Kellner (UCLA) of the International Journal Cultural Politics.
I am also an Associate Editor of Theory, Culture & Society and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Visual Culture, Critical Discourse Studies, Culture & Organisation, the Asian Journal of Information Management, and Critical Perspectives on International Business.
I specialize in the work of the French Christian critic of the art of technology Paul Virilio, and am the editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Sage, 2000), Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (Sage, 2001) and the co-editor, with Dr Joanne Roberts, of Living with Cyberspace: Technology & Society in the 21st Century (Continuum, 2002).
I am the editor of various journal issues and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on cultural, social, and visual theory, technology and cultural politics.
My writings have appeared in journals such as New Left Review, Body & Society, Radical Philosophy, Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Organizational Change Management, International Studies Review, Left Curve, Cultural Politics, CTHEORY, Parallax, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, The Review of Pedagogy, Education, & Cultural Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, Theory, Culture & Society and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities and have been translated into Dutch, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. Publications
‘Baudrillard’s Successful Assault on Sociology’, in International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 4 (3), October 2007: 1-4. Special Issue on: Remembering Baudrillard. Peer-reviewed electronic journal: http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/index.html.
‘Beyond Hypermodern Militarized Knowledge Factories’, in Cultural Studies, 7, July/August 2007: 107-121 Special Section on: The Hypothetical University (Chinese cultural studies academic journal, published in Chinese).
‘On the Eventuality of Total Destruction’, in City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action (11) 3, December 2007: 428-432. (With Joanne Roberts).
‘Gone, but still breathing new life into his field’ (On the work of Jean Baudrillard), in Times Higher Education Supplement, London, UK, March 16th 2007: 14
‘Military Bunkers’, in Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, Edited by Robert Beauregard, Mike Crang, Nan Ellin, Anne Haila, Ray Hutchinson, and Carlos Reboratti, Sage, Thousand Oaks, USA, forthcoming 2008.
Recent Invited Lectures include:
‘Virilio, Media, Art’, invited lecture given to the Department of Media Arts and Imaging, (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design), University of Dundee, Dundee, UK, 23rd January 2008
‘V is for Virilio: Culture, Theory, Speed’, invited lecture as part of a series of lectures on ‘Slowness’ given at the Royal College of Art, London, UK, 7th March 2007
Recent Conference Papers include:
‘The Ignorance Economy’, joint paper given at The 5th International Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester Business School, UK, July 11-13th 2007 (with Joanne Roberts)
‘America’s Hypermodern Everyday Warriors: Notes on Becoming-Hyper’, paper given at the Architecture in the Space of Flows: Buildings – Spaces – Culture Conference, Newcastle University, UK, June 21st-24th 2007
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