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Dr Michael Goddard's current research centres on East European cinema and media cultures, as well as on radical media in the spheres of film and video, radio, postpunk musics and digital culture. His research into radical media is connected to his contribution to the paradigms of media archaeology and especially media ecologies and this approach underlies his current research project on radical media of the 1970s, as well as informing the Unnatural Ecologies issue of Fibreculture, which he co-edited with Dr Jussi Parikka in 2011. 

The key focus of Michael’s research is the exploration of alternative theories and practices of diverse media both in their historical contexts and as potentially actualisable in the present and future.


Michael has edited several books, including Mark E Smith and the Fall: Art, Music and Politics with Dr Benjamin Halligan, with whom he is also co-editing two edited collections on noise for Continuum, in collaboration with Dr Paul Hegarty and Dr Nicola Spelman. He is also co-editing the volume Polish Cinema in a Transnational Context with Professor Ewa Mazierska for publication by Rochester University Press.
He has researched Deleuze's aesthetic and film theories, which has resulted in a number of publications. Recently he completed a manuscript on the cinema of the Chilean-born filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Another strand of his research concerns Italian post-autonomist political thought and media theory, particularly the work of Antonio Negri and Franco Berardi (Bifo) and he has been involved with translation projects of the latter's work on media, immaterial labour and psychopathology.
He is the Co-Editor for Studies in Eastern European Cinema as well as a full member of the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre.


Michael is currently main supervisor of 2 PHD students:

He is also co-supervising research and practice as research Ph.Ds investigating creative cities, social media and protest, cinematic authorship in digital contexts and Salford’s identity in the digital era.

He is currently teaching on the BA TV and Radio and the BA Film Studies, as well as on several MA programmes in the areas of New Media and Digital Culture, Critical Approaches to Film, and Critical Approaches to Media.


Authored Books
 

2010, Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism and the Subversion of Form. Purdue University Press, Comparative Cultural Studies Series
‘Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form is an exciting book and indispensable reading for scholars of international modernism, comparative literature and culture, literary and culture theory, Central and East European culture, Deleuze Studies, and (comparative) cultural studies.’ - Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, State University of New York Buffalo

Forthcoming Books


2012, Impossible Cartographies: The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz. London, New York: Wallflower, CUP.
 

Edited Books
 

2010, Mark E Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics, London, UK: Ashgate, co-edited with Benjamin Halligan.

‘Like a recording by The Fall it is a balanced mixture of sheer ingenuity, mere intelligent observations, quirky twists, everyday blandness, provocative poses, rants, inexplicable detours, sharp wit, repetition, contradictions and glorious farce.’ (Steinholt, Popular Music, 29: 2010).

2009, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East Central Europe, with George McKay, Chris Williams, Neil Foxlee and Egidija Ramauskaite, London: Peter Lang.

‘Ethnologists, sociologists, philosophers, linguists and other cultural academic specialists provide a passionate insight into the largely unknown and sometimes demonised world of subcultures and new religious movements that have proliferated in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the former Soviet empire.’ (Michel Theys, Bulletin Quotidien Europe , 2010)


Forthcoming Edited Books

2013, Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Musics. Co-edited with Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman. New York, London: Continuum.
2012, Reverberations: Noise, Aesthetics, Politics. Co-edited with Benjamin Halligan and Paul Hegarty. New York, London: Continuum.

Guest Editorships of Journals

2011, Special Issue on Unnatural Ecologies, Fibreculture. Co-edited with Jussi Parikka.

Selected Refereed Journal Articles

2012, with Benjamin Halligan, ‘Filming the Post-Fordist Worker: From Post-Hollywood to European Art Cinema’, Framework
2012, ‘Cinematic and aesthetic Cartographies of Subjective Mutation’, Subjectivity
2011, 'Towards a Genealogy of Media Ecologies: The Case of Italian Free Radios', FibreCulture.
2007, 'East-West European Superpositions as Transvergent Cinema: Greg Zglinski's Tout un hiver sans feu’ (2005), Studies in French Cinema, Vol 7, No. 2, pp.107-117.
2006, 'We Are Time: Laibach/NSK, Retro-Avantgardism and Machinic Repetition', Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 11(1), pp.45-54.

Selected Book Chapters

2011 “Eastern Europe as Site of Monstrosity in Import-Export and La Vie Nouvelle”, in: Kendall, T & Horeck, T (eds.), The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2011, “The Ontology and Ethics of the Multitude: The Place of Spinoza in the Political Philosophy of Toni Negri,” Reading Negri, Ed. Pierre Lamarche, Chicago: Open Court. 171-192.
2011, with Benjamin Halligan, “A Dialogue on Fassbinder and Terrorism”, Pasolini, Fassbinder and Europe: Between Utopia and Nihilism. Vighi and Nouss eds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 151-170.
2010, “Escaping Socialist Realism: The ‘Chaste’ Ruiz of the 1970s”, in: El Cine de Raúl Ruiz: Fantasmas, simulacros y artificios, Uqbar Editores: Santiago de Chile. 81-99.
2010, Goddard, M and Halligan, B, “Introduction: Messing up the Paintwork,” in: Mark E Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics, London, UK: Ashgate. 1-15.
2009, “Raymond Bellour”, in: Film, Theory and Philosophy. Felicity Colman ed. Acumen.
2009, Goddard, M & McKay, G, “Introduction: (Post-)subculture Theory, and Practice in East-Central Europe” in: Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, ed. George McKay, Christopher Williams, Neil Foxlee, Michael Goddard and Egidija Ramanauskaite. Oxford: Peter Lang. 3-14.
2009, “Unravelling Holly£ód¿: The Industrial and Cinematic Imaginary of £ód¿,” in: Images of the City, edited by Agnieszka Rasmus et al, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 323-333.
2008, “Sonic and Cultural Noise as Production of the New,” Deleuze, Guattari and the Production of the New, Ed. Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan, London: Continuum. 162-172.
2008, “Figure of Post-Communist Desire?: The Performance of Katarzyna Figura and the Becoming-Popular of Polish Cinema,” Kino Polskie: Re-Interpretacje. Ed. Konrad Klejsa. 275-286.
2008, “Kontrol, Apparitions and Taxidermia: New Corporeal Cartographies in Hungarian Cinema,” Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in a European Context, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. 172-187.

Translation of Academic Articles or Books

2009, Goddard, M, Empson, E & Shukaitis, S 2009, 'Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of the post-alpha generation', translated from Italian by Goddard, M & Berardi, F, Autonomedia: Minor Compositions, London, UK, pp.7-45.
2007, 'Schizo-Economy', 36(1), translated from Italian by Goddard, M & (Bifo), F B , Substance Journal, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, (originally published in 2007), pp.75-84.

Invited Presentations and Keynotes

2011, “Weather Variations: Weatherman, the Weather underground and the Weather Media Ecology”, Sense Lab, Concordia University, Montreal.
2011, “1977 as Nexus”, Invited seminar at Wayne State University, Department of English, Detroit.
2011, “Media Archaeology and Anarchaeology”, Ryerson University, Toronto.
2011, “Toward an Autonomous Take on Platform Politics”, Keynote address, Platform Politics, Anglia Ruskin.
2010, “Media Ecologies and the ‘Post-Media’ Cyebernetic Era: An Exploration of Technocultural Transformations in Networked Conditions”, Nos Digitais sieries, UERJ, Rio De Janeiro.
2010, “The State in Time and the Laibach Kunst War Machine”, Plenary Address, Trvbovlje, Slovenia, 30 Years of Laibach and NSK Symposium.
2009, “Noise as Cultural Subversion: The Return of Post-Punk”, Plenary, Transgression and Subversion, University of £ódŸ.
2009, “ ‘Love or Terror’?: Deleuzian Micropolitics and 1970s Political Violence,” Connect Deleuze, Plenary, Cologne, Germany.
2009, “Our Theatre of Cruelty: Reading Terror and Political Violence in the 1970s as Media Strategies,” Identity, Difference and Hybridity, Romania, May 2009. Keynote Presentation.