DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

Following Patrick Crogan's post pointing to Ben Robertson's blog, and courtesy of Daniel Ross’ Twitter stream (and with his permission), here is a complete list of Bernard Stiegler’s work translated into English. Many of these translations are by Ross (notably Acting Out, with our own Patrick Crogan, and For a New Critique of Political Economy, Taking Care of Youth and the Generations and The Decadence of Industrial Democracies). Not included, apparently, are several unpublished works.

UWE academics Jonathan Dovey and Shawn Sobers are part of a successful large AHRC 'Communities, Culture and Creative Economies' grant. The DCRC are pleased to announce the success of a joint AHRC grant application: "Media, community and the creative citizen", led by Prof. Ian Hargreaves, University of Cardiff. This £1.4m grant aims to assess the value of citizens' creativity in civic, cultural and economic terms, viewed from the standpoint of the individual citizen and the community.

We are conducting ongoing investigations into the co-production of space and place between the human and the technical (following Stiegler, neither pre-exists the other) that Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin have usefully labeled "Code/Space".  This is not, of course, the only form of spatiality that is associated with the performance of 'technicity' in everyday life, but it is a useful category for description.  I have prepared a thematic bibliography, including references from Kitchin & Dodge's "Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life", that may be of interest and/or useful to others. Please find it in plain text below.  

Our first weeknote of the new year is coincidental with the transition from the year of the rabbit to the year of the dragon (Chinese New Year: 23rd January). The DCRC team wishes everyone a happy and fulfilling new year. In the early stages of 2012 DCRC researchers are as busy as ever. We have been presenting research, working current research into this terms teaching programme, writing, and, of course, planning what comes next!