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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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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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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