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Jon Marshall Writings

The Book

Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control was published by Peter Lang in September 2007

The Journal Issue

The Cybermind Online Gender Project. A special issue of the Transforming Cultures Ejournal.

The Novel

The Cybermind Novel by Blaze Rosewood and the Cybermind Collective. "Cyberpunk-fantasy-new-age-airport-trash meets the Cthulhu mythos and Internet or media theory".

Some papers

As much as is possible these papers remain copyright by jon marshall

Published

(forthcoming) "Hair and Chaos" in Suzanne Boccalatte & Meredith Jones (eds) Hair, Trunk books, Bocallatte Press.

(forthcoming?) "Dispersed Power, Disorder, Information Technology and Physiognomy", Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue on 'dispersive anatomies'. Accepted April 2008, in press.

(2008b)"Gender in Online Communications" in Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear and Leu (eds) Handbook of Research on New Literacies, Erlbaum and Associates.

(2008a) "Cybermind: Paradoxes of Relationship in an Online Group", in Samantha Holland (ed). Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang.

(2007b) The introduction for the Cybermind Online Gender Project in the Transforming Cultures Ejournal

(2007c) "The Mobilisation of Race and Gender in an Online Mailing List" also in the Transforming Cultures Ejournal

(2007d) Cybermind discusses gender in Transforming Cultures EJournal NOTE: this article is unrefereed.

(2006a) Four articles for Elieen M Trauth (ed) Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, Idea Group, 2006

"Online Life and Gender Dynamics"
"Online Life and Gender Vagueness and Impersonation"
"Online Life and Netsex or Cybersex"
"Online Life and Online Bodies"

(2006b) "Apparitions, Ghosts, Fairies, Demons and Wild Events: Virtuality in Early Modern Europe", in The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic issue 3

(2006c) "Categories, Gender and Online Community", in E-Learning, Vol.3, No.2

(2006d) "Negri, Hardt, Distributed Governance and Open Source Software", in Portal, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies

(2004a)"The Online Body Breaks Out? Asence, Ghosts, Cyborgs, Gender, Polarity and Politics". Published online in Fibreculture Journal, Issue 3

(2004b) "Governance, Structure and Existence: Authenticity, Rhetoric, Race and Gender on an Internet Mailing List". Published Online as part of the Proceedings of the The Australian Electronic Governance Conference 2004, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, April 14 and 15, 2004.

(2003a) "Internet Politics in an Information economy". Published online in the Fibreculture Journal Vol.1, No.1

(2003b) "Resistances of Gender". Published online in Media Culture Vol.6, No.4

(2003c) A paper on netsex: "The Sexual Life of Cyber-Savants" published in The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol.14, No.2 pp229-248

(2002a) "Reading Paul McHugh: Politics, Psychiatry and the Response to Terror", Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, Vol.1, No.2.
http://www.wickedness.net/ejv1n2/ejv1n2_marshall.pdf

(2002b) A short paper arguing that increased communication is not always a good thing. "Communication and Conflict" in Danny Butt, Chris Chesher, Gillian Fuller, Lisa Gye, Geert Lovink, Molly Hankwitz, Esther Milne, Ned Rossiter and David Teh (eds), Networks of Excellence (Waikato Institute of Technology and Power Institute of Sydney, 2002): 15.

(2002c) Jung, Alchemy and History: A Critical Exposition of Jung's Theory of Alchemy, Hermetic Research Series, Glasgow.
http://www.alchemy.dial.pipex.com/hrs12.html

(2001) A paper on the construction of space in cyberspace: "Cyberspace or Cybertopos: The creation of online space" Published in Social Analysis 45(1) pp81-102.

(1999) A very short paper on the Concept of 'Asence', published in New Directions No. 120

(1995) "Alchemy and Western Science: the Origins of the Divide", in Geoffrey Samuel, (ed.) Western Science and Its Alternatives, University of Newcastle Department of Sociology and Anthropology Occasional Papers Series

Conference papers

These are unpublished conference papers

"Social Disorder as a Social Good", presented at 4Rs (Rights, Reconciliation, Respect and Responsibility: Planning for a socially inclusive future)’, UTS, 30th September to 3rd October

"Australian Customs and Conflict" presented at Ownership and appropriation, a joint international conference of the ASA, the ASAANZ and the AAS, University of Auckland 8th-12th December 2008.

"Ethnography and Epistemology", Paper presented at Transforming Economies changing States, the Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2007, Australian National University, Canberra 30 October - 2 November, 2007.

"Problems of Online Ethnography", paper presented at the Workshop on Internet Mediated Sociality funded by: The Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, The Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Asia Pacific Futures Research Network. Held at the Australian National University, 3-5 November 2006.

"Information Technology, Disruption and Disorder" a paper describing how ordering by technology can produce disruption. It is a study of the Australian Customs Integrated Cargo System Software. Presented at the AOIR Conference in Brisbane 2006.

The Negri and Hardt Trilogy

These papers have some overlap, but hopefully not too much
"Negri, Hardt, Distributed Governance and Open Source Software". Paper presented at the Research Initiative on International Activism conference "Other Worlds", University of Technology Sydney, 2005. Submitted to Portal and now published. See above.

"Empire or Cyborg Governance: Divining Systemic Power" Paper presented at the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, 2005. A greatly revised version has been submitted to the Leonardo Electronic Almanac and I'm told is due in 2008

"Cyborg governance..." Paper Presented at the CongressCath Conference The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, 2005.

The Culture and Imagination Project

"Bachelard, Imagination and the Alchemy of Ethnography: reflections on mytho-materiality and social life on the Internet", Presented at Presented at the Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference: Moving Anthropology - Motion, Emotion and Knowledge, 28th September to 1st October.

"David Hume and the Imagining of Culture". Presented at The Cultural Studies Association of Australian Annual Conference: CultureFix, at the University of Technology Sydney, 2005

Lost papers

The article "Pathologies of the Hero Archytype" was accepted by Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, but the journal seems to have dissappeared.

Reviews

(2007) "Review of Aphra Kerr: The Business and Culture of Digital Games", in Media International Australia, No. 125, November, pp.142-44.

(2007) "Review of Sidney Pershowitz: Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids", in Media International Australia, No. 123, May, pp.180-181.

(2006e) "Review of Maquard Smith: Stelarc the Mongraph", in Media International Australia, No.121, November, pp.219-21.

(2005) "Review of Roy Willis and Patrick Curry. Astrology, Science and Culture: Pulling Down the Moon", The Australian Journal of Anthropology 16(2) pp.277-9.

(2003d) Review of: Daniel Miller & Don Slater, The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Published in The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol.14, No.3 pp.432-4.

(2003e) Review of: Alice Beck Kehoe: "Shamans and Religion", in The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Dec2003, Vol. 14, No.3, pp.425-6.

(2002d) Review of: Douglas Raybeck Looking Down the Road: A Systems Approach to Future Studies. Published in The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol.14, No.1 pp.21-23, 2002

(2000) Review of: William Scott Shelley: "The Elixir, an Alchemical Study of the Ergot Mushroom", The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Vol.10, No.1, pp 118-19.

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There are some unpublished papers which might be of interest, most of which were composed during the first draft of the Thesis on Cybermind. The final version of the thesis is now published as Living On Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control

There is a paper on the social history of the construction of the internet. It is useful in that it discusses the roles of hackers, military, academic and business which is unusual I think.

Another paper discusses the death of Michael Current trying to look at the way rituals are transposed into a new space.

Other abandoned chapters engage with issues of social control and the first week's Spelling wars

I was originally interested in the form of internet myths and they way they used odler structures or contents.

One attempt, compared the internet to alchemy

A slightly shorter and more polished version can be found here

Another paper used the idea of the cyberbody as ghost. This was eventually shortened and incorporated into the Living on Cybermind book.

Current work,

I have just started a project called Chaos, Information Technology, Global Administration and Daily Life. I'm hoping to open a new website for that research soon.

Other Stuff

"What is Alchemy", CG Jung Society of Sydney Newsletter Feb 2001, pp 10-11. http://www.jungdownunder.com/Articles/Articles_Alchemy.html

"Andrew Samuels and Therapy as Politics", CG Jung Society of Sydney Newsletter, August 2001 pp. 9-10.

"Revealing the Emboddied Imagination: a Review of Robert Bosnak's Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel", Jung Downunder, July-December 2007 pp. 28-29. The whole magazine can be downloaded from:
http://www.jundownunder.com/Sydney/Newsletters/2007/Jung_Jul_Dec07.pdf

"On Following your Bliss, a critique of Joseph Campbell", Jung DownunderFebruary-June 2008, pp.14-15.

"Talk with me, not to me" in Health Voices: Journal of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia, Issue 1, April 2008: 16-17.

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