On this page you can download a series of publications and other works by members of the Institute, and some of its affiliates, from around the web. Papers are divided into our four main strands of current research activity.

Bio-Cultures and the Body

Lennard J Davis, ‘Justice and the Claims of Disability’
Jon Goodbun, ‘On the Romanticism of Immersive Technological Environments, or Dancing with the Machines’
Emma McEvoy, ‘Groundless Metaphors and Livings Maps in the Writings of Mary Shelley’
Sina Najafi, Interview with Hugh Raffles on Bees
Sina Najafi, The Body Web Gallery
Marquard Smith, ‘The Uncertainty of Placing: Prosthetic Bodies, Sculptural Design, and Unhomely Dwelling in Marc Quinn, James Gillingham, and Sigmund Freud’
Marquard Smith & Joanne Morra, ‘Introduction: The Prosthetic Impulse’
Alexa Wright, ‘Monstrous Others, Monstrous Selves’
Alexa Wright & Alf Linney, ‘Conversation Piece’

Cultural Institutions: Education, Research, Archive

David Cunningham / Dominic Willsdon, ‘Dissecting Documenta’
Rachel Lichtenstein, ‘A Little Dust Whispered’
Sas Mays
Radical Philosophy Documenta 12 Dossier: What is to be done? (Education)

Urban Cultures

Steven Barfield, ‘Reflections on the Literary Thames: River, City and Chronotope’
Mark Clapson, ‘Urban dispersal and its social consequences’
David Cunningham, ‘The Concept of Metropolis: Philosophy and Urban Form’
David Cunningham, ‘Re-Placing the Novel: Sinclair, Ballard and the Spaces of Literature’
David Cunningham, ‘Slumming It: Mike Davis’ Grand Narrative of Urban Revolution’
Interview with Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf
Sina Najafi on Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates (sound file)
Stefan Szczelkun, ‘The Birthplace of British Democracy’
Alexandra Warwick, ‘The Scene of the Crime: Inventing the Serial Killer’
Anne Witchard, Aspects of Literary Limehouse: Thomas Burke and the “Glamorous Shame of Chinatown”

Visual Culture Studies

David Cunningham, ‘How the Sublime Became “Now”: Time, Modernity and Aesthetics in Lyotard’s Rewriting of Kant’
Katie Hill, ‘Legacy: Contemporary Photographic Works from China’
Marquard Smith (ed.), Visual Culture Studies: Interviews with Key Thinkers
Marquard Smith & Joanne Morra, ‘The Matrix: Morpheus in Exile’
Julian Stallabrass on Thomson & Craighead
Interview with Thomson & Craighead

Bonus Videos

Alter Ego: Short film of Alexa Wright’s installation, with Alf Linney, at FILE 2007.
Anecdote Archive: Dominic Willsdon talks about an unrealized project by Jon Rubin.
Cabinet of Curiosity: Sina Najafi on Cabinet Magazine and the ‘culture of curiosity’.
City Cultures: Launch of the City Cultures project at the Architectural Association in May 2010, with presentations from David Cunningham and Doug Spencer, among others.
DeTank.tv Studio: Jon Goodbun and Filip Visnic speak with Kieran Long, Editor of the Architect’s Journal, about the ins and outs of their Open Tables Ecology installation at Tent London.
Exploding Cinema: An edited version of Stefan Szczelkun’s interviews with the Exploding Cinema collective, the open access underground cinema group from London that started in 1991.
Flat Earth: 2007 film by Thomson and Craighead which circumvents the world through the eyes of bloggers. Flat Earth weaves material found online, taking us on an extraordinary seven-minute journey.
Metropolitics: David Cunningham’s 2009 public lecture at the Architectural Association, as part of the Landscape Urbanism series.
Morris Dancers: Visual material relating to part of Stefan Szczelkun’s project, ’The Conspiracy of Good Taste’.
Rodinsky’s Room: Interview with Rachel Lichtenstein about her work, her book Rodinsky’s Room and her relationship to the East End.
Unprepared Piano: In Thomson and Craighead’s Unprepared Piano, a piano is connected to a database of music MIDI files from all over the web. This library of scores is then performed automatically.