Dr. Joanna Zylinska
Position held:
Reader in New Media and Communications
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7696
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7616
Email:
j.zylinska (@gold.ac.uk)
Website: http://www.joannazylinska.net
Joanna Zylinska is a cultural theorist writing on new technologies, ethics, cultural studies and feminist theory. She is Reviews Editor for Culture Machine, an international peer-reviewed journal of cultural studies and cultural theory. Her research interests focus on new technologies and new media; debates around subjectivity and the body, including the discourses of the 'cyborg' and the 'post-human'; digital art and bioart; photography in the digital age; the ethical implications of new technologies; the relationship between culture, ethics and politics; and Polish-Jewish relations.
Areas of supervision
Federica Frabetti, 'Deconstructing software'
Kerry Moore, ‘Challenging racism from the Left: A cultural study of “the asylum issue” in the UK post-9/11’ (external from Roehampton University)
Research interests
Joanna Zylinska is currently working on a new conceptualisation of bioethics, conducted via an engagement with the work of Levinas, Derrida, Stiegler, Agamben and feminist ‘science and culture’ studies. She is also looking at different forms of bioart, and the aesthetic and ethical issues it brings up.
Selected publications
Books
(2007) Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust (collection co-edited with Dorota Glowacka) (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
(2005) The Ethics of Cultural Studies (London and New York: Continuum)
(2002) The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (London and New York: Continuum). (edited collection).
(2001) On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester: Manchester University Press)
Forthcoming books
(2009) Bioethics in the Age of New Media (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press)
Articles (a selection)
(2008) 'Is There Life in Cybernetics? Designing a Posthumanist Bioethics', in Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin (eds) Law after Deleuze (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) (forthcoming).
(2008) 'Of Swans and Ugly Ducklings: Bioethics between Humans, Animals and Machines', special issue of Configurations ed. by Bernadette Wegenstein (forthcoming).
(2007) '"Who Is My Neighbor?": Ethics under Duress', in Imaginary Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust, eds Dorota Glowacka and Joanna Zylinska (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press)
(2007) 'The Secret of Life: Bioethics between Corporeal and Corporate Obligations', Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No 1 (January).
(2007) '"Nourished … on the Irremediable Differend of Gender": Lyotard's Sublime', in Lyotard and Gender, ed. Margret Grebowicz (Albany: SUNY Press)
(2006) 'Cultural Studies and Ethics', in New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, eds Clare Birchall and Gary Hall (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)