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About me:
Philosophy – people I read include Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard et al, not necessarily because they are more authoritative than Anglo-American writers, but because I like their expansive, divergent and unremittingly creative approach. Favourite slogan: "panic is creation" (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus). Favourite term: "nomadic anarchitecture" (invented in my undergraduate dissertation). I have an essay on Viral Empiricism published in Deleuze and Philosophy, the Difference Engineer (ed. Ansell Pearson). You can read about my research in my transversality blog.

Technology – I am also the Arts Faculty (including Philosophy) E-learning Advisor, and as such work with creative and critical technologies on a daily basis, as you can see reported in the Warwick E-learning Blog. This has given me a deep appreciation of the need for a clarification and re-assessment of the core concepts underpinning the arts: creativity, imagination, technology and individuality. If you are a Warwick PhD student, and would like an ePortfolio like this, contact me.

About my research:
Supervisor: Keith Ansell Pearson

Research topic/interests: Creativity and technology, some initial questions: What is creativity? In what sense can someone be said to possess creativity? In what sense can an animal, environment, culture, society or other formation possess creativity? Can creativity be a property of a technology? Are there a set of 'problems of technology' recurrent in all human activity? Do these problems necessarily relate to the possession of creativity? In what way is creativity in science ("scientific imagination"), the same as in art and philosophy? What does it mean for creative processes to be 'blocked'? How is creativity surpressed and encouraged by social, psychological, political and economic organisations? Does creativity flourish more easily in such conditions (minor literatures)?

To find out more about my research plans and results, please refer to the research section of this ePortfolio. This contains a more detailed paper on my thesis, a bibliography and list of related web links.

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