Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Luciana Parisi

Research interests

Dr Parisi is best known for her research on the relationship between science, technology, philosophy, aesthetic and culture. She has worked on the theory of endosymbiosis, nonlinear dynamics of transmission in evolution. She has written extensively on the impact of cybernetics to an understanding of analog and digital media culture with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. She has published various articles in Tekhnema, Parallax, Ctheory, Social Text, Mute, TCS, and Culture Machine concerning the relevance of science (molecular biology, chaos and complexity theories, quantum physics, endosymbiosis, Darwinism and neo-Darwinism) and technology (digital technologies, biotechnologies and nanotechnology) to materialist ontologies of nature and capitalism. Her research has also focused on the impact of biotechnologies on the notions of the body, sex, femininity and desire. In 2004, she published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire. Her interest in interactive media technologies has also led her research to engage with the synaesthetic relation between image and sound, theories of virtuality and perception, memory and affect, and the generative simulations of space and experience. Recently, she has been working on the bionic transformation of the perceptive sensorium and the advancement of new techno-ecologies of control. Currently she is writing on the nanodesign of nature, topological geometries and contagious architectures of the spatio-temporal experience.

Selected publications

Forthcoming Articles

2007-8 "Symbiotic Algorithm in Digital Architecture" article for the book Spam Culture (invited contributor, in preparation)

2007-8 “Biodigital media and affective capitalism” article for the book Deleuze and Ecologies (ed.), (invited contributor, submitted).

2006-7 “A Memory of the Future” with S. Goodman, article for the book Mapping Memory, S. Radstone (ed.) Fordham University Press (invited contributors, submitted and accepted).

2006 “The nanoengineering of desire” article for ‘Queering the Non-Human’, a special issue of the UK Journal Sexualities, Studies in Culture and Society, Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird (eds.), Sage Publications, (invited contributor, submitted and accepted, under revision).

Published Articles

2006 “Generative Classification” entry for Problematizing Global Knowledge and the New Encyclopaedia Project. Theory, Culture, Society, Volume 23, No. 2-3.

2006 “Biotech: life by contagion”, article for Special Issue on ‘Life’s (re)-emergence: Philosophy, Culture, and Politics’, Theory, Culture and Society, Mike Featherstone (eds.),

2005 (with Steve Goodman) “The affect of nanoterror”, article for Special Issue on ‘Biopolitics’, Culture Machine, Vol 6.

2005 “Virtual matter in bioinformatic capitalism” article for the book Thinking Materiality. Studies on Technological Embodiment, transcript Verlag, Communication, Culture and Social Practices Series, Bath C. et al (eds.), Bielefeld (ISBN 3-89942-336-4), pp.117-140.

2004, “For a schizogenesis of sexual difference” in Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, ISSN (1409-9268).

2004 “La percezione della differenza nel digitale: movimento e affetto”, in La Nuova Shahrazad, Donne e Multiculturalismo, Silvana Carotenuto e Lidia Curti eds, Torino, Liguori Press.

2004 “Information trading and symbiotic micropolitics”, article for Special Issue on ‘Technoscience’, Patricia Clough (eds.) Social Text, Issue 80; 22:3; Fall, Duke Press.

2003 “Viral Sex and Microfeminine Becoming”, article for the book Intervention. Virus, models, tricks, Andrea Sick, Ulrike Bergermann, Elke Bippus, Claudia Reiche and Jutta Weber (eds.), thealit Frauen .Kultur.Labor, Hamburg, der Beitrage liegt bei den Autorinnen (ISBN 3-930924-04-8), pp.64-78.

2001 “The digital circuit of a body”, article for Special Issue on ‘Teleologies ? Scientific, Technical and Critical’, Banham and Malik (eds.), Tekhnema, Journal of Philosophy and Technology, issue 6.

2001 (with Tiziana Terranova) “A matter of affect: videogames and the cybernetic rewiring of vision”, article for Special Issue on ‘Immanent Trajectories’, Simonds, Swidoba and Turner (eds.), Parallax 21, Volume 7, n. 4. October-December.

2000 “Essence and virtuality: the incorporeal desire of Lilith”, article for Anglistica, Aion New Series, Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 4, n. 1, 191-214.

2000 “Towards a geo-physical thought”, a review of Deleuze and Guattari, New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture, Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller (eds.), University of Minnesota Press, 1998, review for Anglistica, Interdisciplinary Journal, Italy, I.U.O. (eds.).

2000 (with Tiziana Terranova), “Heat Death: emergence and control in genetic engineering and artificial life" article for “CTHEORY, THEORY, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, VOL 23, NO 1-2, Article 84[I] 05/10/00 (http://www.tao.ca/fire/ctheory/0119.html).

Single-published Books

2004 Abstract Sex. Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire, “Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy”, London and New York, Continuum Press.

forthcoming (currently in preparation) Contagious Architecture. Technoecologies of Sensation and Control, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press (in preparation)

Presentations and exhibitions