Institute of Communications Studies

My research interests focus upon critical theories of mass media culture – in particular, the works of Theodor Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, and Jean Baudrillard; psychoanalytically-influenced media/film theory – including Friederich Kittler and Slavoj Zizek; and philosophically-informed perspectives upon the media – particularly the work of Martin Heidegger.

Undergraduate Modules:

Media Philosophy: Technological Dasein (3rd Year Option)

Cinematic Themes (2nd Year Core Module)

Film Theory and Aesthetics (3rd Year Option)

MA Teaching:

Radical Journalism (with Dr Chris Paterson)

Books

• Taylor PA (2011) Žižek and the Media. Polity.

• Taylor PA; Harris JL (2008) Critical theories of mass media. Open Univ Pr.

• Taylor PA; Harris J (2005) Digital Matters: Theory and culture of the matrix. Routledge.

• Jordan T; Taylor PA (2004) Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause?. Routledge.

• Taylor PA (1999) Hackers. Routledge.

• Taylor PA; Gunkel DJ Heidegger and the Media. Media Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press. [In preparation]

• Taylor PA Zizek Goes to Hollywood. [In preparation]

Journal Articles

• Taylor PA (2012) “The Just Do It Riot: A Critical Interpretation of the Media's Violence”, Capital and Class. 36.3

• Taylor PA (2009) “'Exploitation of the Self in Community-based Software Production - Workers' Freedoms or Firm Foundations?',”, Capital and Class. 97: 99-120.

• Taylor PA (2009) “'Critical Theory 2.0 and Im/materiality: The Bug in the Machinic Flows'.”, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture. 1.1

• Taylor PA (2009) “'Media Studies 2.0 - The Debate'”, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture. 1.1

• Taylor PA (2008) “Editorial comment: Literature's Power and Fury in the Virtual Age”, Information Communication and Society. 11.6: 741-748.

• Taylor PA (2008) “'Baudrillard's Gallic Shrug - Reality Fundamentalism and the Heineken Effect'”, French Cultural Studies. 19.3: 273-285.

• Taylor PA (2008) “From mit-sein to bit-sein”, Information Communication and Society. 11.6: 781-798.

• Taylor PA (2007) “The Death of a Symbol in King Herod's Creche”, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. 5.1

• Taylor PA (2006) “Putting the critique back into a Critique of Information: refusing to follow the order”, Information, Communication and Society. 9.5: 553-571.

• Taylor PA (2006) “Pattern Recognition in Fast Capitalism: Calling Literary Time on the Theorists of Flux”, Fast Capitalism. 2.1

• Taylor PA (2005) “From Hackers to Hacktivists: speed bumps on the global information superhighway?”, New Media & Society. 7.5: 625-646.

• Taylor PA; Harris JLL (2005) “Baudrillard Bytes”, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. 2.2: 1-22.

• Taylor PA; Harris JLL (2005) “Phantom Objectivity”, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. 2.2: 1-22.

• Taylor PA (2004) “International Journal of Baudrillard Studies”, British Journal of Politics & International Relations.

• Taylor PA (2003) “Waiting for the Barbarians & and the naked Emperor's Chicken”, Higher Education Review. 35.2: 5-23.

• Taylor PA (2003) “Humboldt's Rift: the commercialisation of European Higher Education”, European Political Science. 3.1: 75-84.

• Taylor PA (2001) “Informational Intimacy & Futuristic Flu: Love & Confusion in the Matrix”, Information, Communication and Society. 4.1: 74-94.

• Taylor PA 'Literature's Power and Fury in the Virtual Age'.

• Taylor PA 'From Mit-Sein to Bit-Sein; informational pattern recognition and a chronicle of a life foretold'.

Chapters

• Taylor PA (2012) “Participation and the Technological Imaginary: Interactivity or Interpassivity”, In: Delwiche A; Henderson JJ (eds.) The Participatory Cultures Handbook. Routledge.

• Taylor PA (2010) “Totalitarian Bureaucracy and Bauman's Sociological Imagination: In Defence of the Ivory Tower”, In: Davis M; Tester K (eds.) Bauman's challenge. Palgrave MacMillan.

• Taylor PA (2007) “Hacktivism”, In: Donsbach W (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

• Taylor PA (2006) “'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; Scott A (eds.) Politik der Cultural Studies. Hamburg: Argument Verlag. 247-266

• Taylor PA (2005) “'The pornographic barbarism of the self-reflecting sign"”, In: Nossek H; Sreberny A; Sonwalkar P (eds.) Media and Political Violence. Hampton Press. 349-366

• Taylor PA (2005) “Hacktivism”, In: Bidgoli H (eds.) The Handbook of Information Security.. john wiley & sons. 172-182

• Taylor PA (2004) “Remote from Reality: Living in the New Plato's Cave”, In: Posey E (eds.) Remote: Creativity, Technology and Remoteness. Bloc Press. 16-20

• Taylor PA (2004) “Keyboard Protest: Hacktivist Spiders on the Web”, In: Carter J; Morland D (eds.) Anti-Capitalist Britain. New Clarion Press. 114-126

• Taylor PA (2003) “Hacktivists: Resistance is Fertile?”, In: Sumner C (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Criminology. Blackwell Publishers. 486-500

• Taylor PA (2003) “TrickE-business: Malcontents in the Matrix”, In: Lubbe S (eds.) The Economic & Social Impacts of E-Commerce. Idea Group Publishers. 1-21

• Taylor PA (2003) “Misogynists or Maestros? Gender and the social construction of hacking”, In: Jewkes Y (eds.) Dot.Cons. Willan Publishers. 126-146

• Taylor PA (2001) “The Social Construction of Hackers as Deviants”, In: Thio A; Calhoun TC (eds.) Readings in Deviant Behavior. Allyn & Bacon. 283-292

• Taylor PA (2001) “Hacktivism: in search of lost ethics?”, In: Wall D (eds.) Crime and the Internet. Routledge. 59-73

• Taylor PA “'The Heineken Effect - Bauman, Baudrillard, and Zizek as thinkers of liquidity'”, In: Liquid Sociology: Metaphor in the Writings of Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology. Ashgate. [Accepted]

Internet Publications

• Taylor PA (2007) Why Zizek? Why Now?. Hosted by Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds.

I am the General Editor of the International Journal of Zizek Studies and Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies , Fast Capitalism and the International Journal of Badiou Studies.

I am External Examiner for the MA in Mass Communications at the University of Leicester and the External Examiner for the Undergraduate Communications Programme of Keele University.

I currently supervise:

Vanon Aurajchatchairat

Paul Aitken
Imanol Galfarsoro
Heidi Herzogenrath-Amelung
Stuart Shaw

Past Supervisions

Jesse Hearns-Branaman

Azeez Lukuman

Ting Wang

Jan Ll. Harris

David Kreps

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.

ONLINE VIDEOS relating to my research include:

Screening Thought, The Media’s Philosophical Problem – with Slavoj Zizek, London May 2011.

Zizek’s Violence – a lecture given as part of Bradley Evans’s Histories of Violence project.