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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Analysing Nostalgic Cultural Agency by Laurie Johnson

How does what each of us does every day of our lives contribute to the big picture we call culture?

This ongoing research comprises a series of projects aimed at developing methods for tracing the role of individual everyday practices in collective cultural identification, based on an eclectic approach to theories of body, capital, memory, place, praxis, and time, among others. Examples of this include a phenomenology of the internet and computer practices (how does an individual at a keyboard participate in the machinations of capital, cyberspace, "the web" and other large-scale phenomena simply at the level of the interface?).
It is hoped that these smaller projects will cluster together to form a more fully developed theory of cultural agency, which will need to be developed over a number of major publications.

To date, publications that have resulted from the research include:

"'Out of the Shadow of Brisbane': CBD Development and Local Identity." Eucalypt 3 (2004): 49-60.

"Agency, Beyond Strange Cultural Loops," (feature article) in M/C a journal of media and culture (5.4, 2002)

"Thinking Beyond the Brain: Embodiment and the Psycho-Somatic," in the International Journal of Critical Psychology (5, 2002: 51-70) - A version of this paper was originally presented at the Millennium World Conference in Critical Psychology, UWS, 1999.

"Sick Puppies and Other Unbecoming Things," in M/C a journal of media and culture (4.2, 2001)

"R.S.V.P.," in Paragraph (23.2, 2000: 157-172).

"Tracing Calculation [Calque Calcul] Between Nicolas Abraham and Jacques Derrida," in PMC (10.3, May 2000).

"Dreaming 'My Death'," in M/C a journal of media and culture (2.7, 1999).

"Felix and Gilles's Tempestuous, Monstrous Machine," in M/C a journal of media and culture (2.5, 1999).

Recent conference papers arising from this research also include:

"The Deep Surface of Cultural Production," at Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century (POPIG conference, 26-28 April 2004).

"Give Us Pause: Tracing Empire and Internet," at Benevolence: Burden, Benefit, Trace (UQ Ipswich, 14-16 December 2003).