Dr Simon Mills

Simon teaches new media theory and digital media practice.  His main research area is in the philosophy of technology with a focus on new media technology, socio-cybernetics and the work of Gilbert Simondon.  

Prior to joining DMU he worked for several professional web development agencies as well as the trAce Online Writing Centre.

• Media & Communication Research Centre

Click here for a full listing of Simon Mills' publications and outputs.

Monographs

Mills, S (2016) Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media, Rowman & Littlefield, London. http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/gilbert-simondon

Articles

Mills, S (2015) 'Simondon and Big Data' in Platform Journal of Media & Communication, vol. 6, pp. 59-72 [WWW] available from: http://platformjmc.com/vol-6/

Mills, S. (2011) 'Concrete Software: Simondon’s mechanology and the techno-social' in The Fibreculture Journal, Issue 18 [WWW] available from: http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/2011/10/09/fcj-127-concrete-software-simondon%E2%80%99s-mechanology-and-the-techno-social/

Everitt, D. & Mills, S. (2009) 'Cultural Anxiety 2.0' in Media, Culture & Society, Sage: 31; 749 

• New Media (practice & theory)
• Philosophy of Technology
• Gilbert Simondon
• Ontology
• Cybernetics

• New Media theory
• Cybernetics
• Philosophy of technology
• New Media Publishing
• Digital publishing

• PhD (University of the West of England) - Gilbert Simondon: Causality, Ontogenesis & Technology (Supervisor: Iain Hamilton Grant) 
• PGCert(HE), De Montfort University.
• Msc in Multimedia, Nottingham Trent University.
• M.A. in Writing (Practice & Issues), Nottingham Trent University.
• BA Hons Philosophy, University of Nottingham.

• MEDS2007: New Media (Design & Production)
• MEDS3109: New Media (Creative Project)
• MEDS3403: Cybernetic Media

• Keynote Speaker: Culture & Technics: The Politics of Simondon's Du Mode
  Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 13th-15th, 2018

• Simondon & Big Data (October 2015) Invited speaker at Werkkonferenz, Exhibition Design Institute of the HS Düsseldorf – University of Applied Sciences (HSD). http://werkkonferenz.de/2015/
• Lying About the Future Makes History (September 2011) Conference Paper at Mediating Women, War and Terror, Women’s Media Studies Network; De Montfort University.
• Externalism and Naturalism (August 2011) Conference paper at Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, Human Experience and Nature: Examining the Relationship between Phenomenology and Naturalism; University of the West of England.
• Simondon and Software (May 2010) Conference paper at Gilbert Simondon: transduction, translation, transformation; American University of Paris, France.
• Concrete Software (July 2009) Conference paper delivered at Society of Philosophy of Technology: Converging Technologies, Changing Societies conference; University of Twente
• Cultural Anxiety 2.0 (September 2007), Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0, University of York. Conference paper co-authored with Dave Everitt

• Response paper given to Graham Harman, ‘Weird Ontology.’ February 13, 2008. University of the West of England. Bristol, United Kingdom.

• Member of editorial advisory board Writing Technologies. [WWW] Available from: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/writing_technologies/

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