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Name
  
Daniel Ross

Education
  
Monash University

Role
  
Philosopher

Movies
  
The Ister

Books
  
Violent democracy, Video Game Soundtracks, Video Game Music: Cl, Charting the Classics, Rachmaninov

Daniel Ross (born 1970) is an Australian philosopher and filmmaker, best known as the author of Violent Democracy (2004) and the co-director of the film The Ister (2004). Ross is currently a Prometeo researcher at Yachay Tech, Ecuador. His work is influenced by Bernard Stiegler, and he is a translator or co-translator of numerous texts by Stiegler, including seven books.

Contents

Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002, under the supervision of Michael Janover. It was entitled Heidegger and the Question of the Political and focused in particular on two of Heidegger's lecture courses, Plato's Sophist and Holderlin's Hymn "The Ister". In addition to his work on Stiegler and Heidegger, Ross has written on Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, Stanley Cavell, J. Hoberman, Irving Singer, Leo Strauss, Roger Scruton, Isabelle Stengers, Noel Pearson, Gerald Murnane, Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Yvonne Rainer, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ingmar Bergman, among others.

Filmography

  • The Ister (2004). Co-directed with David Barison.

    • Books translated

  • States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015). ISBN 0-7456-6494-6
  • The Lost Spirit of Capitalism: Disbelief and Discredit, 3 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014). ISBN 978-0-7456-4814-9
  • What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). ISBN 978-0-7456-6271-8
  • Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit, 2 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013). ISBN 0-7456-4812-6
  • The Decadence of Industrial Democracies: Disbelief and Discredit, 1 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011). With Suzanne Arnold. ISBN 0-7456-4810-X
  • For a New Critique of Political Economy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010). ISBN 0-7456-4804-5
  • Acting Out (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009). With David Barison and Patrick Crogan. ISBN 0-8047-5869-7

    • Papers translated

  • "Power, Powerlessness, Thinking, and Future", Los Angeles Review of Books (18 October 2015).
  • "The Writing Screen".
  • "Symptomatology of the Month of January 2015 in France".
  • "Ars and Organological Inventions in Societies of Hyper-Control", Leonardo (2015, forthcoming: doi:10.1162/LEON_a_01080).
  • "The Shadow of the Sublime: On Les Immateriaux", in Yuk Hui & Andreas Broeckmann (eds.), 30 Years after Les Immateriaux: Art, Science, and Theory (Leuphana: Meson Press, 2015): 147–57.
  • "Automatic Society 1: The Future of Work – Introduction", La Deleuziana 1 (2015): 121–40.
  • "Escaping the Anthropocene".
  • "The Anthropocene and Neganthropology".
  • "Digital Humanities" lecture delivered in Leuven, 2014.
  • "An Organology of Dreams and Arche-Cinema", Screening the Past 36 (2013).
  • "Doing and Saying Stupid Things in the Twentieth Century: Betise and Animality in Deleuze and Derrida", Angelaki 18 (2013): 159–74.
  • "Die Aufklarung in the Age of Philosophical Engineering", in Mireille Hildebrandt, Kieron O'Hara & Michael Waidner (eds.), Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2013: The Value of Personal Data (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2013): 29–39. Two prior versions of this paper exist online: "The Aufklarung in the Age of Philosophical Engineering", and original keynote here.
  • "Five Hundred Million Friends: The Pharmacology of Friendship," UMBR(a): Technology (2012): 59–75.
  • "Digital as Bearer of Another Society", Digital Transformation Review 1 (2011): 43–50.
  • "Distrust and the Pharmacology of Transformational Technologies", in Torben B. Zulsdorf, Christopher Coenen, Arianna Ferrari, Ulrich Fiedeler, Colin Milburn & Matthias Wienroth (eds.), Quantum Engagements: Social Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2011): 27–39.
  • "Pharmacology of Desire: Drive-based Capitalism and Libidinal Dis-economy", New Formations 72 (2011): 150–61.
  • "The Pharmacology of the Spirit," in Jane Elliott & Derek Attridge (eds.), Theory After "Theory" (New York: Routledge, 2011): 294–310. ISBN 0-415-48419-7
  • "The Age of De-proletarianisation: Art and teaching in post-consumerist culture," ArtFutures – Current issues in higher arts education (Amsterdam: ELIA, 2010): 10–19.
  • "Ars Industrialis Manifesto 2010".
  • "Desire and Knowledge: The Dead Seize the Living". With George Collins.
  • "The Philosophy School of Epineuil in the Context of Post-consumerism and Post-globalization".
  • "Taking Care".

    • Presentations and appearances

  • "For a Neganthropology of the Cinematic" (19 August 2015), Epineuil-le-Fleuriel.
  • "Technology Between Critical Knowledge and Innovation" (3 June 2015, with Sara Baranzoni and Paolo Vignola), Ibarra.
  • "Technology and Knowledge: A Pharmacological Approach" (22 May 2015, with Sara Baranzoni and Paolo Vignola), Yachay Tech.
  • "The Force of an Indisputable Poetic Necessity: Notes Towards a Theory of Cinematization" (August 2014), Epineuil-le-Fleuriel.
  • "Traduction contributive" (19 May 2015, with Sara Baranzoni and Paolo Vignola), Centre Pompidou.
  • Discussant, responding to Bernard Stiegler, "Distrust, and the Pharmacology of Transformational Technologies" (25 November 2010), New Natures seminar series, University of Melbourne.
  • "Transformations of Aristotle in Bernard Stiegler" (1 July 2008), International Association for Philosophy and Literature, RMIT University; (11 July 2008), Derrida Today, Macquarie University.
  • "Spirit, Technics and Politics in the Work of Bernard Stiegler" (19 October 2007), at the University of Adelaide, as invited speaker.
  • "Philosophical Approaches to the Northern Territory 'National Emergency': Giorgio Agamben, Stiegler and Noel Pearson" (10 October 2007), at Monash University.
  • "From Philosophical Cinema to Cinematic Politics" (28 September 2007), at Duke University, as invited speaker for a symposium devoted to The Ister.
  • "Constitution and Motivation: Bernard Stiegler on the Invention of Europe" (13 April 2007), at the conference, "New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds?", Monash University.
  • "On the Materiality of the Trace" (8 June 2006), Architecture + Philosophy Program, RMIT University, as invited speaker.
  • "Fishponds and Rivers: Heidegger, Stiegler, Murnane" (8 November 2005), Macquarie University, as invited speaker.
  • "Passages to Immortality: Arakawa and Gins, Stiegler, and September 11" (1 July 2005), keynote address at the symposium, "The Politics of Space in the Age of Terrorism," RMIT University.
  • "Thought, Image, America" (22 June 2005), contributor to seminar on "Is it Possible to 'Think' in Images Rather than Words?," Sydney Film Festival.
  • "Of Philosophy, Cinema and The Ister" (1 April 2005), Australian National University, Canberra, at the invitation of Havi Carel (text reproduced in the booklet accompanying the North American version of the DVD released by Icarus Films).
  • "Where to From Here?" (15 December 2004), Trades Hall, Melbourne.
  • "Heidegger in Australien: Ein Film von den Antipoden uber Heidegger und Holderlin" (28 November 2004), episode of the German television program, Prime Time (Ross and Barison interviewed by Alexander Kluge).
  • "Accompaniments: On The Ister" (17 November 2004), Monash University.
  • "Violence and Democracy" (14 September 2004), Late Night Live.

    • Secondary literature

    Note: see the entry on The Ister for secondary literature on the film.

  • Barns, Greg, "Democracy is always exported, but most frequently without success", On Line Opinion (2005).
  • Carnahan, Kevin, "Review of Violent Democracy," The Heythrop Journal 49 (2008): 525–6.
  • Little, Adrian, Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence (Taking on the Political) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
  • Sharpe, Matthew, "Democracy's Violent Heart", borderlands 4:1 (2005).
  • Smith, Dominic, "Review of Christina Howells & Gerald Moore (eds.), Stiegler and Technics", Parrhesia 17 (2013): 92–7.
  • Zurawski, Nils, "Violence and Democracy," Ethnopolitics 5 (2006): 191–8.

    • References

    Daniel Ross (philosopher) Wikipedia
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