Ned Rossiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 137174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ned Rossiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ned |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossiter |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSITER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0710-2109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 306 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Liberation? Machine migration and the logistical episteme
Migration is a logistical problem. And logistics is a computational problem insofar as complex supply chains are managed for computational systems. Migration, including displacement, is the subject of global movements and has increasingly come under the control of supply chains and redistribution measures. This article revisits debates on the autonomy of migration in relation to computational systems that govern migration and border technologies.…
The logistical episteme: Tracing the location of warehousing industries in Malaysia
The concept of the ‘logistical episteme’ – the systemic organisation of practices, technologies and discourses geared toward the optimisation of efficiencies and value extraction – is crucial for understanding how contemporary capitalism reconfigures labour and geopolitics around computational power. This article explores the emergence of the logistical episteme by tracing the historical development of location theory and its integration with con…
Logistical media and environmental media: Energy, war and the politics of distribution
Media staple environment to logistics as technologies that mediate the dynamic between contingency and entropy. Contingency interrupts plans. Entropy introduces disorder. Media organize disruption and disorder as constitutive elements in the production of value enabled by technologies of capture and control. The power of logistical media resides precisely in their capacity to organize. Environmental media describe the space of organization. Logis…
Afterword: Paranoia, or, Assassins on the Run
.
Harold A. Innis, Asian media and dependency theory: Remembering the work of Brian Shoesmith
Casting an eye back on the cultural scene in Perth in the late eighties and early nineties, this article reflects on the legacy of the late Brian Shoesmith. I discuss Brian’s work on Harold A. Innis and communications theory, his interests in Asian media and Indian cinema, the research agendas he forged at Edith Cowan University and his institution building efforts later in his career. In writing this piece, I am struck now by how rich this perio…
Logistical Asia
Logistical Asia: The Labour of Making a World Region
Eco-Aesthetics and the Politics of Mediation
While formally aligned to the discipline of media and communications, and working in universities across the UK, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and now based at Gold-smiths University of London, Sean Cubitt has never been a conformist. Eclectic in his intellectual tastes, Cubitt has roamed with seeming comfort across cultural studies, post-colonial theory, media arts, and film studies. This kind of disciplinary curiosity is also on disp…
Software, Infrastructure, Labor
Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of captu…
Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares
Coded Vanilla: Logistical Media and the Determination of Action
Logistical media coordinate and control the movement of labor, people, and things situated along and within global supply chains. The combination of software and infrastructure holds a determining force in the production of subjectivity and the capacity for action. Algorithmic architectures of logistical media extract data and manage labor whose value is exploited as financial capital. Gamification techniques further extend the power of logistica…
What is a research platform? Mapping methods, mobilities and subjectivities
This article provides an account of the question of method as it relates to collective modes of research organised, conceived and produced through the interplay between digital technologies of communication and offline strategies of investigation. It does so by exploring the orchestration of research platforms, which are mediating devices that constitute the production of knowledge across a range of geocultural settings. In the context of a proje…
Logistical Worlds
As the managerial art and science of coordinating the movement of people, finance and things, logistical operations are central to contemporary capital. Despite its materiality in the form of communications and transport infrastructure, logistics remains an abstract machine for many. This is largely due to the compartmental structure of global supply chains and the invisibility of code. In registering the mediating force of logistics, the essay c…
Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks
I start with the premise that the decoupling of the state from civil society and the reassertion of the multitudes over the unitary figure of 'the people' coincides with a vacuum in political institutions of the state. Against Chantal Mouffe's promotion of an 'agonistic democracy', I argue that the emergent idiom of democracy within networked, informational settings is a non- or post-representative one that can be understood in terms of processua…
In Praise of Concept Production: Formats, Schools, and Nonrepresentational Media Studies
In this chapter, Lovink and Rossiter argue that the field of media studies has yet to develop a theory of itself. Audience studies investigated fandom and the production of meaning, textual analysis preoccupied itself with signification processes attached to content, and political economy turned its gaze on institutional power. Medium theory, while close to the authors' own interests, still falls short, they argue, because it never changed the di…
Organizing Networks: Notes on Collaborative Constitution, Translation, and the Work of Organization
The return of political ontology and its critique of representation contributes to a retrieval of the antagonistic registers of “the political.” A corresponding interest in processes of collaborative constitution has explored alternative modalities of the (conflictual) production of (political) subjectivity. Because such efforts necessarily attend to the status of a principle of the actionable, this essay suggests that the question of a “beyond” …
Networks, Institutions, Translation
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
In 2003, the concept of precarity emerged as the central organizing platform for a series of social struggles that would spread across the space of Europe. Four years later, almost as suddenly as the precarity movement appeared, so it would enter into crisis. To understand precarity as a political concept it is necessary to go beyond economistic approaches that see social conditions as determined by the mode of production. Such a move requires us…
Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Thoughts
This article reports on current developments within “creative industries” in Beijing. The article discusses Dashanzi Art District and the Created in China Industrial Alliance in relation to such issues as labor, intellectual-property regimes, real-estate speculation, high-tech development zones, promotional cultures and the global variability of neoliberal capitalism. The article maintains that creative industries, as realizations of a policy con…
Creative Industries, Comparative Media Theory and the Limits of Critique from Within
It has become common for contemporary media and cultural theorists to claim that “there is no more outside.” Such a position pushes the idea of a horizontally organized information society to the extreme and fails to account for how exclusion is a condition of possibility. This essay analyses how a “constitutive outside” functions within the creative industries as a result of the exploitation of the intellectual property generated by labourpower.…
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
Ruins of Performance Art in the City
(1999). Ruins of Performance Art in the City. Parallax: Vol. 5, Passagen 2000: The City, Pace and Space, pp. 102-113
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
In 2003, the concept of precarity emerged as the central organizing platform for a series of social struggles that would spread across the space of Europe. Four years later, almost as suddenly as the precarity movement appeared, so it would enter into crisis. To understand precarity as a political concept it is necessary to go beyond economistic approaches that see social conditions as determined by the mode of production. Such a move requires us…
Logistical Worlds
As the managerial art and science of coordinating the movement of people, finance and things, logistical operations are central to contemporary capital. Despite its materiality in the form of communications and transport infrastructure, logistics remains an abstract machine for many. This is largely due to the compartmental structure of global supply chains and the invisibility of code. In registering the mediating force of logistics, the essay c…
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
Coded Vanilla: Logistical Media and the Determination of Action
Logistical media coordinate and control the movement of labor, people, and things situated along and within global supply chains. The combination of software and infrastructure holds a determining force in the production of subjectivity and the capacity for action. Algorithmic architectures of logistical media extract data and manage labor whose value is exploited as financial capital. Gamification techniques further extend the power of logistica…
Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Thoughts
This article reports on current developments within “creative industries” in Beijing. The article discusses Dashanzi Art District and the Created in China Industrial Alliance in relation to such issues as labor, intellectual-property regimes, real-estate speculation, high-tech development zones, promotional cultures and the global variability of neoliberal capitalism. The article maintains that creative industries, as realizations of a policy con…
Ruins of Performance Art in the City
(1999). Ruins of Performance Art in the City. Parallax: Vol. 5, Passagen 2000: The City, Pace and Space, pp. 102-113
Creative Industries, Comparative Media Theory and the Limits of Critique from Within
It has become common for contemporary media and cultural theorists to claim that “there is no more outside.” Such a position pushes the idea of a horizontally organized information society to the extreme and fails to account for how exclusion is a condition of possibility. This essay analyses how a “constitutive outside” functions within the creative industries as a result of the exploitation of the intellectual property generated by labourpower.…
Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries
Creative Industries in Beijing: Initial Thoughts
This article reports on current developments within “creative industries” in Beijing. The article discusses Dashanzi Art District and the Created in China Industrial Alliance in relation to such issues as labor, intellectual-property regimes, real-estate speculation, high-tech development zones, promotional cultures and the global variability of neoliberal capitalism. The article maintains that creative industries, as realizations of a policy con…
Networks, Institutions, Translation
Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception
In 2003, the concept of precarity emerged as the central organizing platform for a series of social struggles that would spread across the space of Europe. Four years later, almost as suddenly as the precarity movement appeared, so it would enter into crisis. To understand precarity as a political concept it is necessary to go beyond economistic approaches that see social conditions as determined by the mode of production. Such a move requires us…
Organizing Networks: Notes on Collaborative Constitution, Translation, and the Work of Organization
The return of political ontology and its critique of representation contributes to a retrieval of the antagonistic registers of “the political.” A corresponding interest in processes of collaborative constitution has explored alternative modalities of the (conflictual) production of (political) subjectivity. Because such efforts necessarily attend to the status of a principle of the actionable, this essay suggests that the question of a “beyond” …
In Praise of Concept Production: Formats, Schools, and Nonrepresentational Media Studies
In this chapter, Lovink and Rossiter argue that the field of media studies has yet to develop a theory of itself. Audience studies investigated fandom and the production of meaning, textual analysis preoccupied itself with signification processes attached to content, and political economy turned its gaze on institutional power. Medium theory, while close to the authors' own interests, still falls short, they argue, because it never changed the di…
Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks
I start with the premise that the decoupling of the state from civil society and the reassertion of the multitudes over the unitary figure of 'the people' coincides with a vacuum in political institutions of the state. Against Chantal Mouffe's promotion of an 'agonistic democracy', I argue that the emergent idiom of democracy within networked, informational settings is a non- or post-representative one that can be understood in terms of processua…
What is a research platform? Mapping methods, mobilities and subjectivities
This article provides an account of the question of method as it relates to collective modes of research organised, conceived and produced through the interplay between digital technologies of communication and offline strategies of investigation. It does so by exploring the orchestration of research platforms, which are mediating devices that constitute the production of knowledge across a range of geocultural settings. In the context of a proje…
Logistical Worlds
As the managerial art and science of coordinating the movement of people, finance and things, logistical operations are central to contemporary capital. Despite its materiality in the form of communications and transport infrastructure, logistics remains an abstract machine for many. This is largely due to the compartmental structure of global supply chains and the invisibility of code. In registering the mediating force of logistics, the essay c…
Coded Vanilla: Logistical Media and the Determination of Action
Logistical media coordinate and control the movement of labor, people, and things situated along and within global supply chains. The combination of software and infrastructure holds a determining force in the production of subjectivity and the capacity for action. Algorithmic architectures of logistical media extract data and manage labor whose value is exploited as financial capital. Gamification techniques further extend the power of logistica…
Software, Infrastructure, Labor
Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. Contingency haunts logistical power. Technologies of captu…
Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares
Logistical Asia
Logistical Asia: The Labour of Making a World Region
Eco-Aesthetics and the Politics of Mediation
While formally aligned to the discipline of media and communications, and working in universities across the UK, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and now based at Gold-smiths University of London, Sean Cubitt has never been a conformist. Eclectic in his intellectual tastes, Cubitt has roamed with seeming comfort across cultural studies, post-colonial theory, media arts, and film studies. This kind of disciplinary curiosity is also on disp…
Harold A. Innis, Asian media and dependency theory: Remembering the work of Brian Shoesmith
Casting an eye back on the cultural scene in Perth in the late eighties and early nineties, this article reflects on the legacy of the late Brian Shoesmith. I discuss Brian’s work on Harold A. Innis and communications theory, his interests in Asian media and Indian cinema, the research agendas he forged at Edith Cowan University and his institution building efforts later in his career. In writing this piece, I am struck now by how rich this perio…
Logistical media and environmental media: Energy, war and the politics of distribution
Media staple environment to logistics as technologies that mediate the dynamic between contingency and entropy. Contingency interrupts plans. Entropy introduces disorder. Media organize disruption and disorder as constitutive elements in the production of value enabled by technologies of capture and control. The power of logistical media resides precisely in their capacity to organize. Environmental media describe the space of organization. Logis…
Afterword: Paranoia, or, Assassins on the Run
.
The logistical episteme: Tracing the location of warehousing industries in Malaysia
The concept of the ‘logistical episteme’ – the systemic organisation of practices, technologies and discourses geared toward the optimisation of efficiencies and value extraction – is crucial for understanding how contemporary capitalism reconfigures labour and geopolitics around computational power. This article explores the emergence of the logistical episteme by tracing the historical development of location theory and its integration with con…
Liberation? Machine migration and the logistical episteme
Migration is a logistical problem. And logistics is a computational problem insofar as complex supply chains are managed for computational systems. Migration, including displacement, is the subject of global movements and has increasingly come under the control of supply chains and redistribution measures. This article revisits debates on the autonomy of migration in relation to computational systems that govern migration and border technologies.…
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