Christopher O’Neill

@blueskychris.bsky.social

Lecturer in Media at Monash University Media Theory & STS - The Body in Error - Canguilhem/Foucault/Derrida/Hyppolite - Work and Automation - Face Recognition - Sensors - Etc

AusSTS is thrilled to announce the launch of two new annual awards 🏆✨ The AusSTS Best Paper Prize celebrates the work of junior STS scholars in the AusSTS community. It is open to current PhDs and ECRs, who have conferred their PhD within the last two years of the submission closing date.

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

AusSTS CFP out now! Get your ‘Antipodean Interruptions’ in for this November at Wellington Uni/Te Herenga Waka. Read all about it at our slick new website - aussts.org 👀🙂‍↕️

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AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

The AusSTS 2025 cfp is closing soon - please get your ‘Signals and Noises’ in by Friday 14 March! It’s shaping up to be an amazing few days in Narrm across the National Communication Museum and Deakin Downtown, and we'll be welcoming some amazing keynote speakers and contributors, including... 1/

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🚨 AusSTS2025 submissions close in 10 days! Submit a paper, present your work creatively in a poster or Making and Doing installation, pre-submit a short paper to workshop at the conference, and/ or get an STS-adjacent crew together by proposing a meet- up 👭💞

Carina Truyts @carinatruyts.bsky.social · last yr.

Yep, glowing walls and defunct devices will be looking on at #AusSTS2025. Day 1 is at the National Communication Museum, and we're going to use the space & stuff to think with. Infrastructures, enfolded time & space, translation, listening, silencing, senses. Get in it aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Museum gallery with green lights and a wall of defunct objects, 3 people stand in frame.

Australasian STS Conference Call for Proposals: “to bring the broad scope of STS subjects, skills, practices and politics into conversation with a core problematic of information theory – the problem of noise.” Submissions due March 14. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters, making and doing sessions, pre-s…

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CFP for #AusSTS2025 is out - this year we're picking up 'signals and noises'! Excited to be co-convening, and can't wait to see everyone in July at Deakin Downtown and the National Communication Museum (in Narrm/Melbourne). More at aussts.org/aussts-2025-... - please get in touch with any questions!

Call for Proposals: AusSTS 2025 Conference

The Call for Proposals for the AusSTS 2025 conference, to be held in Narrm/ Melbourne from 9-11 July, is now open. We invite submissions for presentations, posters & making and doing, pre-submi…

aussts.org

AusSTS@aussts.bsky.social · 2y ago

The call for #AusSTS2025 is live - submit your proposals by 14 March to join us for #signalsandnoises, 9- 11 July. aussts.org/aussts-2025-...

A great article on the scandal that shocked the world! Is this the end of Kochie's career? Click the link below to find out more...

Christopher O’Neill@blueskychris.bsky.social · 2y ago

New OA article - using data from the @admscentre.org.au Ad Observatory, we draw upon Zupančič and Rancière to analyse the role of conspirituality in online Facebook scams. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Part of a cool new special issue of JoIT&P on the the future of conspiracy scholarship! 👌

A figure from an academic article on conspiracy scholarship. The figure's caption describes the image in this way: "Typical example of scam ad featuring an image of Australian television presenter David Koch photoshopped to appear as though he had been arrested on live television"

Big Saturday preparing my paper for next week's Australasian Society of Continental Philosophy conference - I'll be discussing the strange circumstances around Bernard Stiegler's first published piece, the misleadingly titled 'Questions for Jacques Derrida', and Derrida's (non)-response...

Abstract for ASCP paper 'I prefer the letter' - In various lists of 'Interviews with Jacques Derrida' we find an intriguing early encounter with Bernard Stiegler - 1984's 'Questions à Jacques Derrida', published in the experimental arts journal 'Digraphe'. Despite the significance of each thinker in their own right, and in relation to each other's philosophical path, this interview has never been republished, or collected, or translated. This is probably because the encounter did not really take place. The 'interview', as published, was merely a set of questions - really more like six theses from Stiegler on Derrida's grammatology, in an era in which Stiegler argues that "all writing has 'become' media". After the first 'question', on the relation between doxa and paradox in Derrida's thought, Stiegler 'concedes' that "I'm not really expecting a response". Indeed, the piece features no reply from Derrida - Stiegler was essentially 'interviewing' an empty chair, as it were. And yet, buried in the Derrida archives at UC Irvine, we find that Derrida did in fact respond to Stiegler's questions. His reply, a letter beginning with the line 'I Prefer the Letter', was written several months too late - and indeed was ultimately never published. Here I consider the stakes of this non-encounter, as a kind of dress rehearsal for their later (non-)encounter in (non-)real-time in 'Echographies of Television' (1996/2002).Photograph of a young Bernard Stiegler with the caption 'L'eidos, c'est le flux'Front cover of the May 1984 edition of the journal Digraphe