Andrew Murphie
Biographic Data
| ID | 668653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Murphie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphie |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1593-4151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On being affected
How possible is it for a life of ongoing feeling to hold, given the world’s current becomings? Much of this article will consider three of the most pervasive of the current disruptions as disruptions of living and feeling: climate change, social change, and, in more detail, what I will call a ‘third media revolution’. All three of these disruptions (and many others) are themselves multiple. They all fold through each other. Living and feeling thu…
Flowing
Murphie develops elements of Maxwell's discussion of musical flow (1997), expanding his discussion to address problematic aspects of contemporary music theory
Sound at the End of the World as We Know It
This article gives a detailed description of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the refrain and argues its usefulness for an understanding of popular music. This is followed by an application of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the refrain to a specific, and problematic, attempt at territorial formation and deformation - the appearance of Australian expatriate independent music emblem, Nick Cave, in the German auteur Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of…
Auditland
Audit—the ongoing evaluation of performance—began as a fairly narrow range of technical procedures in financial accounting. However, it has now expanded its range to “account” for a wide range of behaviours, thoughts and feelings, in the workplace and elsewhere. This article suggests that audit cultures are a response to the “abyss of the differential”. This is the abyss faced when too much generative difference threatens established interests, a…
Hacking the aesthetic
Award winning Australian electronic artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding's installation work is discussed as “signal-work.” Their work reconfigures signal within original assemblages involving subtle audio, high resolution video (both recorded and animated), kilometers of coiled copper wire, antennae or home-built electronics, electrostatic disturbances, the like of very low frequency radiation from the Milky Way, and cross-signal processing…
An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers
The Two Cultures Become Multiple
This discussion arose from a quick exchange at the ‘Two Cultures’ conference at the University of New South Wales in 2006. Sciences–humanities relations were the issue. What remained of the ‘two cultures’ divide, if anything? How were the humanities and social sciences responding to the ‘hard’ sciences? How possible at this moment was it to work across the two cultures? In the discussion, Andrew made an off-the-cuff remark that ‘we are all scient…
Vertiginous Mediations
There is much to be learnt if we situate the study of computer games in a broader 'ecology', combining media ecologies with sensory, political and other ecologies in a 'transdisciplinary metamethodology' (Genosko, 2003). This methodology enables a better understanding of both games themselves and of what games can tell us more generally about our new hyper-mediated lives. The paper departs from Félix Guattari's concept of 'three ecologies' (here …
The Electronic Presence of Absence
The Electronic Presence of Absence: Renediating Media Studies Andrew Murphie (bio) Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Durham and London: Duke University press, 2000), 257 pages. Haunted Media is one of those books that should have been written a long time ago, but perhaps has only been possible to write recently. For one thing, it takes up the recent concern with displacing secular-centric thinking a…
Culture and Technology
We are 'going virtual' in more and more areas of our lives - from shopping to education, filing systems to love affairs. How can we assess the relationship between technology and culture when culture is so imbued with technology? This clear, concise and readable text aims to offer the student a one-stop guide through this complex and slippery terrain. Introducing a wealth of theoretical perspectives in a lucid and engaging style and covering a ra…
The Mystery Remains
The Two Cultures Become Multiple
This discussion arose from a quick exchange at the ‘Two Cultures’ conference at the University of New South Wales in 2006. Sciences–humanities relations were the issue. What remained of the ‘two cultures’ divide, if anything? How were the humanities and social sciences responding to the ‘hard’ sciences? How possible at this moment was it to work across the two cultures? In the discussion, Andrew made an off-the-cuff remark that ‘we are all scient…
Auditland
Audit—the ongoing evaluation of performance—began as a fairly narrow range of technical procedures in financial accounting. However, it has now expanded its range to “account” for a wide range of behaviours, thoughts and feelings, in the workplace and elsewhere. This article suggests that audit cultures are a response to the “abyss of the differential”. This is the abyss faced when too much generative difference threatens established interests, a…
The Mystery Remains
Culture and Technology
We are 'going virtual' in more and more areas of our lives - from shopping to education, filing systems to love affairs. How can we assess the relationship between technology and culture when culture is so imbued with technology? This clear, concise and readable text aims to offer the student a one-stop guide through this complex and slippery terrain. Introducing a wealth of theoretical perspectives in a lucid and engaging style and covering a ra…
The Electronic Presence of Absence
The Electronic Presence of Absence: Renediating Media Studies Andrew Murphie (bio) Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Durham and London: Duke University press, 2000), 257 pages. Haunted Media is one of those books that should have been written a long time ago, but perhaps has only been possible to write recently. For one thing, it takes up the recent concern with displacing secular-centric thinking a…
Vertiginous Mediations
There is much to be learnt if we situate the study of computer games in a broader 'ecology', combining media ecologies with sensory, political and other ecologies in a 'transdisciplinary metamethodology' (Genosko, 2003). This methodology enables a better understanding of both games themselves and of what games can tell us more generally about our new hyper-mediated lives. The paper departs from Félix Guattari's concept of 'three ecologies' (here …
The Two Cultures Become Multiple
This discussion arose from a quick exchange at the ‘Two Cultures’ conference at the University of New South Wales in 2006. Sciences–humanities relations were the issue. What remained of the ‘two cultures’ divide, if anything? How were the humanities and social sciences responding to the ‘hard’ sciences? How possible at this moment was it to work across the two cultures? In the discussion, Andrew made an off-the-cuff remark that ‘we are all scient…
An Ethics of Everyday Infinities and Powers
Hacking the aesthetic
Award winning Australian electronic artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding's installation work is discussed as “signal-work.” Their work reconfigures signal within original assemblages involving subtle audio, high resolution video (both recorded and animated), kilometers of coiled copper wire, antennae or home-built electronics, electrostatic disturbances, the like of very low frequency radiation from the Milky Way, and cross-signal processing…
Auditland
Audit—the ongoing evaluation of performance—began as a fairly narrow range of technical procedures in financial accounting. However, it has now expanded its range to “account” for a wide range of behaviours, thoughts and feelings, in the workplace and elsewhere. This article suggests that audit cultures are a response to the “abyss of the differential”. This is the abyss faced when too much generative difference threatens established interests, a…
Flowing
Murphie develops elements of Maxwell's discussion of musical flow (1997), expanding his discussion to address problematic aspects of contemporary music theory
Sound at the End of the World as We Know It
This article gives a detailed description of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the refrain and argues its usefulness for an understanding of popular music. This is followed by an application of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the refrain to a specific, and problematic, attempt at territorial formation and deformation - the appearance of Australian expatriate independent music emblem, Nick Cave, in the German auteur Wim Wenders' 1987 film Wings of…
On being affected
How possible is it for a life of ongoing feeling to hold, given the world’s current becomings? Much of this article will consider three of the most pervasive of the current disruptions as disruptions of living and feeling: climate change, social change, and, in more detail, what I will call a ‘third media revolution’. All three of these disruptions (and many others) are themselves multiple. They all fold through each other. Living and feeling thu…
Sociology (9 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Political science (3 works)