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Christopher O’Neill
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University & 2025 Fulbright Scholar at University of Southern California

Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc
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Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · Jan 30
CFP for #AusSTS2025 is out - this year we're picking up 'signals and noises'! Excited to be co-convening, and can't wait to see everyone in July at Deakin Downtown and the National Communication Museum (in Narrm/Melbourne). More at aussts.org/aussts-2025-... - please get in touch with any questions!
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tdneale.bsky.social
Can't make it to #AusSTS25? We will be streaming keynotes, including the "Bodies of signal and noise" plenary w/ Warwick Anderson, Kari Lancaster + Chris O'Neill @wombatscholar.bsky.social @karilancaster.bsky.social @blueskychris.bsky.social Fri 11 July @ 1530 AEST www.youtube.com/live/dBNpkXI...
AusSTS 2025 Day 3 Keynote "Bodies of signal and noise"
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June 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
blueskychris.bsky.social
CFP for AusSTS closes today - remember to get your signals in!! 📶 🚨 aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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thaophan.bsky.social
CFP closing next week for #AusSTS2025! Don't miss this 🔥 list of plenary speakers including

Warwick Anderson
Kari Lancaster
Ranjodh Dhaliwal Singh
Fabian Offert
Dang Nguyen
Kate Mannel
Chris O'Neill
Elizabeth Stephens
Jaya Keaney
& more!!

Deadline 14 March
aussts.bsky.social AusSTS @aussts.bsky.social · Mar 5
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
blueskychris.bsky.social
Excited to discuss 'the face of the child and the face of the corpse' tomorrow at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for the 'Irresistible Decay' conference! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc... (might recommend a trigger warning for the conference booklet; you can probably guess the kind of thing featured! 😅)
Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today
warwick.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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aussts.bsky.social
Finally on day 3 there will be a keynote panel on noise within health, including Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney) @wombatscholar.bsky.social Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social (University of Bath) and Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social (Deakin). 5/
March 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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aussts.bsky.social
The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/
March 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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aussts.bsky.social
🚨 AusSTS2025 submissions close in 10 days! Submit a paper, present your work creatively in a poster or Making and Doing installation, pre-submit a short paper to workshop at the conference, and/ or get an STS-adjacent crew together by proposing a meet- up 👭💞
carinatruyts.bsky.social Carina Truyts @carinatruyts.bsky.social · Mar 4
Yep, glowing walls and defunct devices will be looking on at #AusSTS2025. Day 1 is at the National Communication Museum, and we're going to use the space & stuff to think with. Infrastructures, enfolded time & space, translation, listening, silencing, senses. Get in it aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Museum gallery with green lights and a wall of defunct objects, 3 people stand in frame. Museum installation of old phone infrastructure/ wires and boxes.
March 4, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...
Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference
The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…
aussts.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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thaophan.bsky.social
The CFP for #AusSTS2025 is now open! This year's theme is 📡SIGNALS AND NOISES📡 and will be hosted in Naarm/Melbourne, 9 - 11 July

Deadline for proposals: 14 March

Shout out to co-convenors @carinatruyts.bsky.social and @blueskychris.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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glenberman.bsky.social
The next AusSTS is so soon. Come join us in Melbourne. Cfp is live at: aussts.org/aussts-2025-... #STS
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
blueskychris.bsky.social
Serresians and Cageians warmly invited to corrupt our channels! #aussts2025 🪱🔕😅
February 3, 2025 at 5:51 AM
blueskychris.bsky.social
CFP for #AusSTS2025 is out - this year we're picking up 'signals and noises'! Excited to be co-convening, and can't wait to see everyone in July at Deakin Downtown and the National Communication Museum (in Narrm/Melbourne). More at aussts.org/aussts-2025-... - please get in touch with any questions!
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Thanks so much to @thaophan.bsky.social for putting together our AusSTS & friends starter pack - go.bsky.app/DR3Tptg
AusSTS & friends
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January 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I've now uploaded a open access version of a piece from last year - Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite' philarchive.org/rec/ONEETA
Title page and abstract for the linked article, on Error, Truth, and Anxiety against Death: Reading Georges Canguilhem's 'On Science and Counter-Science', part of a special section of Philosophy, Politics and Critique - Homage to the 'Hommage à Hyppolite'
January 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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aussts.bsky.social
📣Save-the-date for #AusSTS2025! This year's theme is ⚡SIGNALS AND NOISES⚡

9 - 11 July, 2025
Melbourne/Naarm

Hosted by @deakinssn.bsky.social and @sthv.bsky.social

Ful CFP coming soon!
January 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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carinatruyts.bsky.social
Here for the STS sauce, and to share the good news: the #AusSTS CFP is getting warmer, and will be live soon. Thanks to @sthv.bsky.social for the support getting this great design out aussts.org/call-for-pro...
January 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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A great article on the scandal that shocked the world! Is this the end of Kochie's career? Click the link below to find out more...
blueskychris.bsky.social Christopher O’Neill @blueskychris.bsky.social · Jan 20
New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌
A figure from an academic article on conspiracy scholarship. The figure's caption describes the image in this way: "Typical example of scam ad featuring an image of Australian television presenter David Koch photoshopped to appear as though he had been arrested on live television" Abstract for an academic article entitled 'conspirituality and online scam ads'. The abstract begins: Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects with current forms of commercial “conspirituality” that thrive on social media platforms, inviting users to suspend their disbelief in miracle cures and get-rich-quick schemes. The scam ads we examined mobilize critiques of existing social and economic inequality to enhance the appeal of the false solutions they offer. Following recent work on conspirituality, the article draws upon Jacques Ranciere’s notion of “dissensus” to analyze the ways in which the style and content of scam ads invite a form of “conspiracy believing” that challenges common sense understandings...
January 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
blueskychris.bsky.social
New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌
A figure from an academic article on conspiracy scholarship. The figure's caption describes the image in this way: "Typical example of scam ad featuring an image of Australian television presenter David Koch photoshopped to appear as though he had been arrested on live television" Abstract for an academic article entitled 'conspirituality and online scam ads'. The abstract begins: Drawing on a collection of online ads for scam bitcoin exchanges, this article situates their appeal and aesthetic within the longer history of populist political marketing. This history connects with current forms of commercial “conspirituality” that thrive on social media platforms, inviting users to suspend their disbelief in miracle cures and get-rich-quick schemes. The scam ads we examined mobilize critiques of existing social and economic inequality to enhance the appeal of the false solutions they offer. Following recent work on conspirituality, the article draws upon Jacques Ranciere’s notion of “dissensus” to analyze the ways in which the style and content of scam ads invite a form of “conspiracy believing” that challenges common sense understandings...
January 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Big Saturday preparing my paper for next week's Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference - I'll be discussing the strange circumstances around Bernard Stiegler's first published piece, the misleadingly titled 'Questions for Jacques Derrida', and Derrida's (non)-response...
Abstract for ASCP paper 'I prefer the letter' - In various lists of 'Interviews with Jacques Derrida' we find an intriguing early encounter with Bernard Stiegler - 1984's 'Questions à Jacques Derrida', published in the experimental arts journal 'Digraphe'. Despite the significance of each thinker in their own right, and in relation to each other's philosophical path, this interview has never been republished, or collected, or translated. This is probably because the encounter did not really take place. The 'interview', as published, was merely a set of questions - really more like six theses from Stiegler on Derrida's grammatology, in an era in which Stiegler argues that "all writing has 'become' media". After the first 'question', on the relation between doxa and paradox in Derrida's thought, Stiegler 'concedes' that "I'm not really expecting a response". Indeed, the piece features no reply from Derrida - Stiegler was essentially 'interviewing' an empty chair, as it were. And yet, buried in the Derrida archives at UC Irvine, we find that Derrida did in fact respond to Stiegler's questions. His reply, a letter beginning with the line 'I Prefer the Letter', was written several months too late - and indeed was ultimately never published. Here I consider the stakes of this non-encounter, as a kind of dress rehearsal for their later (non-)encounter in (non-)real-time in 'Echographies of Television' (1996/2002). Photograph of a young Bernard Stiegler with the caption 'L'eidos, c'est le flux' Front cover of the May 1984 edition of the journal Digraphe
November 30, 2024 at 6:03 AM