By Professor Michael Richardson

Books

Richardson M, 2024, Nonhuman Witnessing War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World, Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3310/Nonhuman-WitnessingWar-Data-and-Ecology-after-the

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

Book Chapters

Richardson M; Richardson M, 2025, 'WITNESSING: Curiosity and the Nonhuman', in Stuckey L (ed.), Uncertain Curiosity in Artistic Research, Philosophy, Media and Cultural Studies Transforming Understanding—Understanding Transformation, Springer Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91995-4

Richardson M, 2024, 'The Media and Drone Warfare', in De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Richardson M; Pong B, 2024, 'Drone Aesthetics – An Open Proposition', in Drone Aesthetics War, Culture, Ecology, Open Humanities Press, pp. 9 - 29

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 Vint S (ed.), After the Human, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351039260-14

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

Richardson M; Pong B, (ed.), 2024, Drone Aesthetics: War, Culture, Ecology, Open Humanities Press, http://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Pong_Richardson_2024_Drone-Aesthetics.pdf

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

Journal articles

Matich P; Richardson M; Burgess J, 2026, 'Authenticity controversies: Witness media and generative AI imagery', Media Culture and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01634437261442039

Richardson M; Jacob A, 2026, 'Mil-tech oligarchy and the security state', Science as Culture, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2026.2648051

Andrejevic M; Horn ZE; Richardson M; Richardson M, 2025, 'Value from digital twins', Platforms & Society, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/29768624251358648

Horn Z; Richardson M, 2025, 'Digital twins and the logistical mode of prediction', New Media and Society, 27, pp. 4443 - 4460, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448251338291

Horn Z; Richardson M; Richardson M, 2025, 'Digital twins and logistical labour: Models, plans and the inversion of the ‘real’', Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.19.2.0004

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

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