Dr Jake Buckley
Overview
Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email:
BuckleyJ2@cf.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 74046
Extension: 70406
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Research Interests
Cultural studies of technology, time and the body; the analogue and the digital; bodily movement/mobility; sexuality studies (especially queer theory and queer temporality studies); Fordism and post-Fordism.
Selected Publications
‘Analogue vs Digital’, in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality (forthcoming 2012)
‘Believing in the (Analogico-)Digital’, Culture Machine, 12 (2011)
‘Moving, Assembling, Breaking Down: Sexual Automobility in Fordist Time and Space’, Assuming Gender, 1:2 (2010), 4-21
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Publications
Recent Publications
‘Analogue vs Digital’, in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality (forthcoming 2012)
‘Believing in the (Analogico-)Digital’, Culture Machine, 12 (2011)
‘Moving, Assembling, Breaking Down: Sexual Automobility in Fordist Time and Space’, Assuming Gender, 1:2 (2010), 4-21
Research
My research focuses on critical theories of technological embodiment, particularly those which resist the Aristotelian notion of technology as an instrument or tool for human use. One of my key interests is in problematizing the idea of a ‘digital revolution’, by drawing on the theoretical writings of first-wave cybernetics, and philosophical accounts of the analogue, the digital and the virtual. I am also interested in critiquing the ways in which new media and digital devices have been central to the affective turn in cultural theory.
I am currently working on a research project that expands on the central argument of my doctoral thesis, ‘Queer Fordism: Technological Bodies Moving Otherwise’.
Biography
After gaining my first degree in Media Communications at the University of Gloucestershire I moved to Cardiff, where I completed an MA and PhD in Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Previously I taught on the Visual Cultures undergraduate programme at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and I have a longstanding interest in supporting students with specific learning difficulties in higher education. Currently I combine my duties as Postdoctoral Fellow with my role as Disability Study Skills Tutor at the University of Wales, Newport.