Dr Paul Rekret
Professor of Politics
Contact:
Email: rekretp@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centre: The State Power & Globalisation
Professor of Politics
Contact:
Email: rekretp@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centre: The State Power & Globalisation
About
Before joining Richmond Paul Rekret had been a lecturer in political theory at Queen Mary, University of London. He holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, an MA in Philosophy & Cultural Analysis from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and a PhD in Politics from Queen Mary, University of London.
In order to understand the global politics of digital culture, his research embraces cultural theory, political philosophy and global political economy to interrogate changing relationships between mind and body. This involves exploring questions such as how changing experiences of work might be reflected in the tropes of popular music as well as the music industry itself. It also entails asking how, in an epoch of ‘big data’ and nanotechnology, rapidly changing spatial and temporal scales of media have different effects on lives and identities around the world.
His work in political and cultural theory has been published widely, including the journals Theory, Culture & Society, Constellations, and Journal of Popular Music Studies. He is the author of two books, Down With Childhood: Popular Music and the Crisis of Innocence and Derrida and Foucault: Philosophy, Politics, Polemics.
He speaks regularly at international conferences and festivals, including Tate Liverpool (UK), CTM Festival (Germany), Regenerative Feedback (USA/ the Netherlands), and Unsound Festival (Poland). His work on music politics has featured in a range of media including Frieze, The Wire, the Guardian, Folha de S.Paolo, BBC Radio 4, NTS Radio, the New Inquiry, the Quietus, Spex, the London Review of Books blog, and elsewhere. He also hosts Beholder Halfway, a radio essay airing monthly on Resonance.Extra.
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