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Designing for the Far Right (2019)
Journal Article
Cookney, D. (2019). Designing for the Far Right

A new book from Steven Heller examines the history of the symbols used by the far right. Here, he talks to Daniel Cookney about why these designs have proved so enduring, and also advocates for why they should be banned.

The architecture of underground dance music : the work of Shaun Bloodworth (2019)
Journal Article
the work of Shaun Bloodworth. Architecture and Culture, 7(2), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1614799

Presenting a posthumous consideration of the work of photographer Shaun Bloodworth with a focus on his use of the urban landscape, this photo essay argues that there is a connection between figure and ground that defies conventional portraiture.... Read More about The architecture of underground dance music : the work of Shaun Bloodworth.

Vimeo killed the video star : Burial and the user-generated music video (2017)
Book Chapter
music video. In D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, M. Goddard, & G. Arnold (Eds.), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (255-267). New York: Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter looks at how user generated content on sites such as Vimeo and Youtube has responded to and further facilitated the practice of ‘facelessness’ employed by, electronic music producer, Burial. For a notoriously media-shy producer who is sy... Read More about Vimeo killed the video star : Burial and the user-generated music video.

Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media (2017)
Book
(2017). G. Arnold, D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media. Bloomsbury Academic

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains... Read More about Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media.

Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2016, June). Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity. Presented at Celebrity Studies Journal Conference, University of Amsterdam

While Western rockist notions of authenticity within music will negate electronic dance music (EDM) due to assumptions regarding its inherent artificiality, French EDM duo Daft Punk has negotiated fame through an alternative approach to the authentic... Read More about Daft Punk as Anti-Celebrity Celebrity.

Rave sucks : hoovers and housework (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2013, April). Rave sucks : hoovers and housework. Presented at Noisy Places, Noisy Music: Theories, Practices and Spaces of Noisemaking Panel, University of Salford, MediaCity

The warehouse (a blanket term used to describe a number of disused industrial buildings that would also include mills and factories) has long been associated with the UK’s rave subculture. These have become more than just physical places that situate... Read More about Rave sucks : hoovers and housework.

Sshhh (2012)
Book Chapter
Cookney, D. (2012). Sshhh. In M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise (147-163). London: Continuum (Bloomsbury)

This chapter documents a process undertaken by the author in summer 2010. Submitted as part of the University of Salford’s MA Communication Design programme, the study resulted in a practice-based outcome – a compact disc of audio recordings housed w... Read More about Sshhh.

Dead and buried : the worker and dubstep (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2012, July). Dead and buried : the worker and dubstep. Presented at New Critical Concepts of Work: Anonymous Labour, Precarious Labour, Immaterial Labour panel (CASS PGR Summer School), MediaCity, Salford, UK

In The Ecstasy of Disappearance, Melechi suggested that it was the "invisibility" of the acid house subculture that moved it to a "new order of politics and resistance" (Melechi, in Redhead [ed.], 1993, pp. 34-35). Whilst seemingly mindful of "subcul... Read More about Dead and buried : the worker and dubstep.

Post-human pop : from simulation to assimilation (2012)
Book Chapter
Cookney, D. (2012). Post-human pop : from simulation to assimilation. In E. Taylor, J. Darlington, D. Cookney, & G. Bevan (Eds.), Extremity and excess : proceedings of the 2011 University of Salford College of Arts and Social Sciences postgraduate research conference (19-41). Salford, UK: University of Salford

The following chapter discusses the adoption of the robot as a primary representational form by, two music acts, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk. While this process might be interpreted as one of extreme dehumanisation and sacrifice, the paper questions whet... Read More about Post-human pop : from simulation to assimilation.

Extremity and excess : proceedings of the 2011 University of Salford College of Arts and Social Sciences postgraduate research conference (2012)
Book
Darlington, J., Cookney, D., Gasllagher, R., Brammer, L., Whitcroft, E., O'Neill, V., …Bosward, M. (2012). E. Taylor, J. Darlington, D. Cookney, & G. Bevan (Eds.), Extremity and excess : proceedings of the 2011 University of Salford College of Arts and Social Sciences postgraduate research conference. Salford, UK: University of Salford

The essays gathered in this volume explore the difficulties of classifying and conceptualizing the extreme and the excessive. Uniting a broad selection of new research (initially presented as part of the University of Salford’s annual College of Arts... Read More about Extremity and excess : proceedings of the 2011 University of Salford College of Arts and Social Sciences postgraduate research conference.

Sshhh : the commodification of silence (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2010, July). Sshhh : the commodification of silence. Presented at Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics Conference, University of Salford

This chapter documents a process undertaken by the author in summer 2010. Submitted as part of the University of Salford’s MA Communication Design programme, the study resulted in a practice-based outcome – a compact disc of audio recordings housed w... Read More about Sshhh : the commodification of silence.