Dr Luciana Parisi
Centre for Cultural Studies
Lecturer | PhD
l.parisi (@gold.ac.uk)
Research Interests
Dr Luciana Parisi’s research looks at the asymmetric relationship between science and philosophy, aesthetics and culture, technology and politics to investigate potential conditions for ontological and epistemological change. Her work on cybernetics and information theories, evolutionary theories, genetic coding and viral transmission has informed her analysis of culture and politics, the critique of capitalism, power and control. During the late 90s she worked with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick and has since been writing with Steve Goodman (aka kode 9). In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (Continuum Press), where she departed from the critical impasse between notions of the body, sexuality, gender on the one hand, and studies of science and technologies on the other. Her work engaged with ontological and epistemological transformations entangled to the technocapitalist development of biotechnologies, which un-intentionally re-articulated models of evolutions, questioning dominant conceptions of sex, femininity and desire. Since the publication of Abstract Sex, she has also written on the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium triggered by new media, on the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control, and on the nanoengineering of matter. She has published articles about the relation between cybernetic machines, memory and perception in the context of a non-phenomenological critique of computational media and in relation to emerging strategies of branding and marketing. Her interest in interactive media has also led her research to engage more closely with computation, cognition, and algorithmic aesthetics. She is currently writing on architectural modeling and completing a monograph: Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and the Control of Space (MIT Press, forthcoming).
Recent Publications
Parisi, Luciana and Goodman, Steve. 2009. Extensive Continuum: Towards a Rhythmic Anarchitecture. Rhythmic Nexus. The Felt Togetherness of Movement and Thought, Inflections, 2, http://www.senselab.ca/inflexions/volume_3/issues.html
Parisi, Luciana. 2009. Symbiotic Architecture: Prehending Digitality. Theory, Culture and Society, Special Issue on Ubiquitous Media, 26(2-3), pp. 346-374.
Parisi, Luciana. 2009. An archigenesis of experience. Australian Feminist Studies, 24(59), pp. 39-51.
Parisi, Luciana. 2009. Technoecologies of Sensation and Control. In: Deleuze and Guattari and Ecology, Palgrave Macmillan, 182-200.
Parisi, Luciana. 2009. The Adventures of Sex. In: C. Nigianni and M. Storr (eds) Deleuze and Queer Theory. Edinburgh University Press, 72-92.
Parisi, Luciana. 2007. Biotech: life by contagion. Theory Culture & Society, 24(6), pp. 29-52.