Staff Profiles

Robert Briggs has researched and taught in a wide range of areas across the humanities, including media and communication studies, literary studies, cultural studies, creative and professional writing, journalism, philosophy and ethics.

He has published numerous articles on post-structuralism, cultural criticism, popular culture, and he is co-editor of "Manufacturing Consent?", a special issue of Southern Review (2005). His work has appeared in Angelaki, Cultural Studies Review, Social Semiotics, Environmental Ethics, CTheory and many other international journals of philosophy, literature and culture.

For details of and access to many of Robert's publications, visit his Academia profile page:

http://curtin.academia.edu/RobertBriggs

* Continental philosophy (particularly Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Hegel and Nietzsche)

* post-structuralism

* cultural and literary theory

* popular narrative and popular media

* creative criticism

* sound studies

* new media and digital culture

* twentieth century literature

* theories and technologies of writing

* Return to Sender: Essays on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx, w/ Niall Lucy (Curtin)

* Sonic Events and Arts of Listening — Towards a Virtual Sound Studies, w/ Niall Lucy (Curtin), Darren Tofts (Swinburne) and Philip Samartzis (RMIT)

* Culture & Pedagogy: On the Popular Art of Reviewing Popular Art

* Digital Democracy: Examining the Technological, Industrial and Discursive Features of the "Blogosophere"

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

• Briggs, R. 2010. Silent Television: A Virtual History of Voice and Voicelessness in Divergent Media. CTHEORY .
• Briggs, R. 2009. SHAMELESS! reconceiving the problem of student plagiarism. Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14(1): 65-75.
• Briggs, R. 2007. Culture & Pedagogy: On the Popular Art of Reviewing Popular Art. Cultural Studies Review 13(2): 115-133.
• Briggs, R. 2005. Power, Consent, Responsibility: Governmentality and the Rationales of Analysis. Southern Review 37(3): 46-57.
• Briggs, R. 2003. Shameless! Reconceiving the Problem of Plagiarism. Australian Universities' Review 46: 19-23.
• Briggs, R. 2003. Wrong Numbers: The Endless Fiction of Auster and Deleuze and Guattari and . . .. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 44: 213-224.
• Briggs, R. 2003. Don’t Fence Me In: Reading Beyond Genre. Senses of Cinema 27.

Minor Creative Works

• Lucy, N, and Briggs, R. 2011. The Accumulation of Sediment (Catalogue Essay). Perth: Centre for Culture & Technology.
• Lucy, N, and Briggs, R. 2011. the art of writing (a history of writing). Perth: Centre for Culture & Technology.
• Briggs, R. 2003. Senses of Cinema. Australia: Senses of Cinema Inc..

Curating an Exhibition

• Lucy, N, and Briggs, R. 2011. Ctrl-Z: Writing in the Age of New Media. Perth: Centre for Culture & Technology.