By Associate Professor Michael Richardson

Books

Richardson M, 2024, Nonhuman Witnessing War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World, Duke University Press

Richardson M, 2016, Gestures of Testimony Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature, Bloomsbury Academic

Book Chapters

Richardson M, 2023, 'Algorithmic Trauma', in Seigworth GJ; Pedwell C (ed.), The Affect Theory Reader 2: Worldings, Tensions, Futures, Duke University Press, pp. 423 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478027201-021

Richardson M, 2022, 'Military Virtues and the Limits of ‘Ethics’ in AI Research', in Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of 'Ethics' in AI Research, Institute of Network Cultures, pp. 123 - 137, https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/economies-of-virtue-the-circulation-of-ethics-in-ai/

Richardson M, 2020, 'Embodiment and Affect', in After the Human, Cambridge University Press, pp. 58 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108874427.005

RICHARDSON M, 2020, 'Of Games and Drones:', in Remote Warfare, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 127 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/j.ctv17db42n.9

Richardson M; Allison K, 2019, 'Affect and the Unsaid: Silences, Impasses, and Testimonies to Trauma', in Murray AJ; Durrheim K (ed.), Qualitative Studies of Silence, Cambridge University Press, pp. 236 - 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108345552.014

Richardson M; Schankweiler K, 2019, 'Affective Witnessing', in Slaby J; Von Scheve C (ed.), Affective Societies Key Concepts, Routledge, pp. 166 - 177

Richardson M, 2018, 'Drone's-Eye View: Affective Witnessing and Technicities of Perception', in Image Testimonies Witnessing in Times of Social Media, Routledge, pp. 64 - 74, https://login.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1984663&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EB&ppid=pp_72

, 2018, 'Drone’s-eye view', in Richardson M (ed.), Image Testimonies, Routledge, pp. 72 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429434853-6

Richardson M, 2018, 'Terrorism: Trauma in the Excess of Affect', in Trauma and Literature, Cambridge University Press, pp. 320 - 333

, 2018, 'Trauma and Literature', in Kurtz JR (ed.), , Cambridge University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316817155

Richardson MA, 2016, 'Surveillance Publics After Edward Snowden', in Lee K; Marshall DP; D'Cruz G; Macdonald S (ed.), Contemporary Publics : Shifting Boundaries in New Media, Technology and Culture, Palsgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 163 - 180

Richardson MA; Atkinson M, 2013, 'Introduction: At the Nexus', in Richardson M; Atkinson M (ed.), Traumatic Affect, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, pp. 1 - 19

Richardson MA, 2013, 'Torturous Affect: Writing and the Problem of Pain', in Richardson MA; Atkinson M (ed.), Traumatic Affect, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, pp. 148 - 170

Richardson MA, 2013, 'Writing Torture’s Remnants', in Collins CA; Clark JE (ed.), Speaking the Unspeakable, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Freeland, UK

Edited Books

Atkinson M; Richardson M, 2013, Traumatic Affect, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Journal articles

Richardson M, 2024, 'From the archives of drone failure', Cultural Studies, 38, pp. 697 - 699, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1905676

Jackman A; Richardson M; Veber M, 2024, 'Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism', New Media and Society, 26, pp. 1183 - 1203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448231202137

Richardson M; Munster A, 2023, 'Pluralising the Planetary: The Radical Incompleteness of Machinic Envisioning', Media+Environment, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/001c.87980

Ford H; Richardson M, 2023, 'Framing data witnessing: Airwars and the production of authority in conflict monitoring', Media, Culture and Society, 45, pp. 805 - 821, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01634437221147631

Richardson M; Schnepf JD, 2023, 'Home Drone: How to Militarize the Smart Home with the Ring Always Home Camera', Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v9i1.38355

Richardson M, 2023, 'Drone trauma: violent mediation and remote warfare', Media, Culture and Society, 45, pp. 202 - 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01634437221122257

Pinchevski A; Richardson M, 2023, 'Trauma and digital media: Introduction to crosscurrents special section', Media, Culture and Society, 45, pp. 178 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01634437221122244

Richardson M; Zolkos M, 2023, 'Witnessing the Anthropocene', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 28, pp. 3 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233792

Fish A; Richardson M, 2022, 'Drone Power: Conservation, Humanitarianism, Policing and War', Theory, Culture and Society, 39, pp. 3 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02632764211022828

Richardson M; Zolkos M, 2022, 'WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN', Angelaki, 27, pp. 3 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2022.2046355

Richardson M, 2022, 'How to witness a drone strike', Digital War, 3, pp. 38 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s42984-022-00048-3

Brooks A; Richardson M, 2021, 'On Witnessing a Riot', Lateral, http://dx.doi.org/10.25158/l10.2.8

Richardson M; Schankweiler K, 2020, 'Introduction: Affective Witnessing as Theory and Practice', Parallax, 26, pp. 235 - 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2021.1883301

Richardson M, 2020, 'Witnessing the Anthropocene: affect and the problem of scale', Parallax, 26, pp. 339 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2021.1883298

Richardson M, 2020, 'Drone cultures: encounters with everyday militarisms', Continuum, 34, pp. 858 - 869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2020.1842125

Richardson M, 2019, 'Predictive Killing: Drone War and Algorithmic Opacities', Infrastructural Inequalities, 1, https://infrastructuralinequalities.net/issue-1/predictive-killing/?pdf=455

Richardson M, 2018, 'Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come', Environmental Humanities, 10, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-4385444

Richardson M, 2018, 'Drone Capitalism', Transformations, 31, pp. 79 - 97, http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Trans31_05_richardson.pdf

Richardson M, 2018, 'There's Something Going On', Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, 1, pp. 149 - 154, http://capaciousjournal.com/past-issues/vol-1-no-2-2018/

Richardson M, 2017, 'Radical absence: encountering traumatic affect in digitally mediated disappearance', Cultural Studies, 32, pp. 63 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1394342

Richardson M, 2017, 'The disgust of Donald Trump', Continuum, 31, pp. 747 - 756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2017.1370077

Richardson M, 2017, 'Ghosting politics: Speechwriters, speechmakers and the (re)crafting of identity', Cultural Studies Review, 23, pp. 3 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v23i2.5472

Richardson MA, 2017, 'Resonances of the Negative: Traumatic Affect and Empty Spaces of Writing', TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Programs, http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue42/Richardson.pdf

Richardson MA, 2014, '"Every Moment is Two Moments": Witnessing and the Poetics of Trauma in Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels', Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 3, pp. 81 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jlt.2014.0021

Richardson M, 2013, 'Writing Trauma: Affected in the Act', NEW WRITING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CREATIVE WRITING, 10, pp. 154 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2012.725748

Richardson MA, 2012, 'Who Speaks? Torture and the Ethics of Voice', TEXT Journal, 16, http://www.textjournal.com.au/april12/richardson.htm

Conference Papers

Richardson MA, 2011, 'Writing Torture’s Remnants: Sovereign Power, Affect and the War on Terror', in Barrette C; Haylock B; Mortimer D (eds.), Trauma Imprints: Performance, Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Prague, presented at Trauma: Theory & Practice, Prague, 14 March 2011 - 16 March 2011

Conference Posters

Richardson M, 2018, 'Drone Culture', Sydney, presented at Australian Academy of the Humanities Annual Symposium, Sydney, 14 November 2018 - 16 November 2018

Conference Presentations

Richardson M, 2018, 'Affective Witnessing, Mediatised Trauma and the Figure of the Drone', presented at Australasian Society for Continental Society, Western Sydney University, 21 November 2018 - 21 November 2019

Richardson M, 2018, 'Patterns of Life and Predictive Killings', presented at 4S, Sydney, 29 August 2018 - 01 September 2018

Richardson M, 2018, 'On the Non-Human Witness: Affects, Technologies, Mediations', presented at Capacious: Affect Inquiry / Making Space, Millersville University (USA), 08 August 2018 - 11 August 2018

Richardson MA, 2015, 'Moving Secrets: Edward Snowden and the Fluid Hidden', presented at Cultural Studies Association of Australia, University of Wollongong, 03 December 2015 - 05 December 2015

Richardson MA, 2015, 'Guantánamo’s Poets: Minor Writings from the State of Exception', presented at Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne University, 30 November 2015 - 03 December 2015

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