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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Digital culture and themes of dis-empowerment.
Critical theories of mass media culture - in particular, the works of Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer, Leo Lowenthal, Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard.
Psychoanalytically-influenced media theory - including the work of Friederich Kittler and Slavoj Zizek.
I am the General Editor of the International Journal of Zizek Studies and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies and Fast Capitalism.
I have appeared regularly on various BBC Radio and World Service programmes as a commentator on a range of media and cultural issues. See for example: Woman's Hour
AUTHORED BOOKS
Taylor, P.A. (2010 forthcoming) Zizek and the Media for the series Key Media Thinkers, Polity Press.
Taylor, P.A. and Harris, J. (2008) Critical Theories of Mass Media Culture: Then & Now, Open University Press.
Taylor, P.A. and Harris, J. (2005) Digital Matters: theory and culture of the matrix, London: Routledge.
Taylor, P.A. and Jordan, T. (2004) Hacktivism & Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause?, London: Routledge.
Taylor, P.A. (1999) Hackers: Crime and the Digital Sublime, London: Routledge.
OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Taylor, P.A. (2010, forthcoming) 'The Heineken Effect - Bauman, Baudrillard, and Zizek as thinkers of liquidity' for a special edition of Acta Sociologica on the work of Zygmunt Bauman edited by Keith Tester and Mark Davis.
Taylor, P.A. (2009) 'Media Studies 2.0 - The Debate', Guest Editorial Introduction, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 1(1).
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Taylor, P.A. (2009) 'Critcial Theory 2.0 and Im/materiality: The Bug in the Machinic Flows', Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture 1(1).
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Taylor, P.A. and Moore, P. (2009) 'Exploitation of the Self in Community-based Software Production - Workers' Freedoms or Firm Foundations?', Capital and Class, 97: 99-120.
Taylor, P.A. (2008) 'Literature's Power and Fury in the Virtual Age', Guest Editorial, Social Science Fiction Special Issue, Information, Communication and Society, 11(6) 741-748.
Taylor, P.A. (2008) 'From Mit-Sein to Bit-Sein; informational pattern recognition and a chronicle of a life foretold', Social Science Fiction Special Issue, Information, Communication and Society, 11(6) 781-798.
Taylor, P.A. (2008) 'Baudrillard's Gallic Shrug - Reality Fundamentalism and the Heineken Effect', French Cultural Studies, 19 (3): 273-285.
Taylor, P.A. (2008) 'Baudrillard's Resistance To the Ob-scene As the Mis-en-scene (Or, Refusing to Think Like a Lap-Dancer's Client)', The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 5(2).
Taylor, P.A. (2008)Perverted research and the political imagination - the trial of the Good Scholar Švejk', European Political Science, 7(3): 335-351. 'PDF
Taylor, P.A. (2007) 'The Death of a Symbol in King Herod's Creche', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4(3).
Taylor, P.A. (2007) 'Why Zizek? Why Now?', International Journal of Zizek Studies, 1(1): 1-10. PDF
Taylor, P.A. (2006) 'Pattern Recognition in Fast Capitalism: Calling Literary Time on theorists of flux', Fast Capitalism, 2(1).
Taylor, P.A. (2006) 'War Porn' Translation of Jean Baudrillard's 'La Pornographie de la Guerre', Journal of Visual Culture, 5(1): 86-88.
Taylor, P.A. (2006) 'Putting the critique back into A Critique of Information', Information, Communication & Society, 9(5): 553-571. PDF
Taylor, P.A. (2006) 'Baudrillard's Radical Media Theory', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 4(1).
Taylor, P.A. (2005) 'From Hackers to Hacktivists: speed bumps on the global information superhighway?', special 'Hacking edition' of New Media & Society, 625-646.
Taylor, P.A. and Harris, J. (2005) 'Baudrillard Bytes', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2(2). [26 pages]
Taylor, P.A. and Harris, J. (2005) 'Phantom Objectivity', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 2(2). [27 pages]
Taylor, P.A. (2003) 'Waiting for the Barbarians & and the naked Emperor's Chicken', Higher Education Review, 35(2): 5-23.
Taylor, P.A. (2003) 'Humboldt's Rift: the commercialisation of European Higher Education', European Political Science 3(1): 75-84.
Taylor, P.A. (2001) 'Informational Intimacy & Futuristic Flu: Love & Confusion in the Matrix', Information, Communication and Society 4(1): 74-94.
Taylor, P.A. (2000) 'Fleshing out the maelstrom: Biopunk and the Violence of Information', Korean IT journal Roasted Dream (Goo-Woon-Mong) 1: 168-177.
Taylor, P.A. and Jordan, T. (1998) 'A Sociology of Hackers', Sociological Review, 46 (4): 757-80.
Taylor, P.A. (1998) 'Hackers: Cyberpunks or Microserfs?', Information, Communication & Society, 1(4): 401-419.
Book Chapters
Taylor, P.A. (2010 in press) 'Totalitarian Bureaucracy and Bauman's Sociological Imagination - in defence of the Ivory Tower, ' in Davis, M. and Tester, K. Bauman's Challenge: Sociological Issues for the Twenty First Century. Palgrave MacMillan.
Taylor, P. A. (2010 in press) 'Hacking - The Pervert's Guide to Information' in Crime On-Line: Causes, Correlates, and Context. University of Carolina, Academic Press.
Taylor, P.A. (2008) 'Hacktivism', in the International Communication Association's International Encyclopedia of Communication, Oxford: Blackwell Press.
Taylor, P.A. (2008) 'Hackers: Cyberpunks or Microserfs?', reprinted in Bell, D. and Kennedy, B. (eds) The Cybercultures Reader, 2nd ed., London: Routledge.
Taylor, P.A. (2007) 'Die Politik der Fiktion - oder warum Literatur mehr ist als das was ich im Zug auf dem Weg zur Arbeit lese', in Harrasser, K., Riedmann, S. and Scott, A. (eds.) Politik der Cultural Studies, Hamburg: Argument Verlag, pp. 247-266.
Taylor, P.A. (2006) 'The pornographic barbarism of the self-reflecting sign', in Nossek, H., Sreberny, A. and Sonwalkar, P. (eds.) Media and Political Violence, Hampton Press, pp 349-366. Reprinted in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 4(1) and in Obajtek-Kirkwood, A.-M. and Hakanen, E.A. (eds.) (2007) Signs of War: From Patriotism to Dissent, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Taylor, P.A. (2006) 'War Porn' Translation of Jean Baudrillard's 'La Pornographie de la Guerre', in Lotringer, S. (ed.) The Conspiracy of Art, New York: Semiotext(e), pp 205-209.
Taylor, P.A. and Harris, J. (2005) 'Hacktivism', in Bidgoli, H. (ed.) The Handbook of Information Security, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, pp.172-182.
Taylor, P.A. (2004) 'Remote from Reality: Living in the New Plato's Cave', in E. Posey (ed.) Essays on Creativity, Technology & Remoteness, Bloc Press, pp. 16-20.
Taylor, P.A. (2004) 'Keyboard Protest: Hacktivism & Electronic Civil Disobedience', in Carter and Morland (eds.) Anti-Capitalist Britain, Cheltenham: New Clarion Press, pp 114-126.
Taylor, P.A. (2003) 'Misogynists or Maestros? Gender and the social construction of hacking', in Jewkes, Y. (ed.) Dot.Cons, Devon: Willan Publishers, pp. 126-146.
Taylor, P.A. (2003) 'TrickE-business: Malcontents in the Matrix', in Lubbe, S. (ed.) The Economic & Social Impacts of E-Commerce, Idea Group Publishers USA [international edition], pp. 1-21.
Taylor, P.A. (2003) 'Hacktivists: Resistance is Fertile?', in Sumner, C. (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Criminology, Oxford: Blackwell [international edition], pp. 486-500.
Taylor, P.A. (2002) 'A Sociology of Hackers', reprinted in Giddens, T. (ed.) Sociology, 4th ed., Oxford: Blackwell.
(also reprinted in Bennett T. and Watson, D. (eds.) (2003) Understanding Everyday Life, Oxford: Blackwell.)
Taylor, P.A. (2001) 'A Sociology of Hackers', reprinted in Godwin, M. (ed.) Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: a collaborative approach to effective profiling, New York: CRC Press, pp.213-30
Taylor, P.A. (2001) 'The Social Construction of Hackers as Deviants', in Thio, A. and Calhoun, T.C. (eds.) Readings in Deviant Behavior, 2nd Edition, Boston: Allyn & Bacon, pp. 283-292.
Taylor, P.A. (2001) 'Hacktivism: in search of lost ethics?', in Wall, D. (ed.) Crime and the Internet, London: Routledge, pp. 59-73.
Taylor, P.A. (2000) 'Hackers: Cyberpunks or Microserfs?', in Loader, B. (ed.) Cybercrime, London: Routledge, pp. 36-55.
SELECTED OTHER WORK
Interviews
Taylor, P.A. and Tere Vaden (2008) 'Rima korkealla ja seinät leveällä Paul A. Taylor in haastattelu'. Niin & Näin nro 56 kevät 1.
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Paul Aitken
Adesina Lukuman Azeez
Ting Melody Wang
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