Dr Paul Rekret
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I am Lecturer in Media Industries in the School of Media and Communication. I have previously held posts at Queen Mary, University of London, Richmond University, and Liverpool Hope University. I hold a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, an MA from the University of Amsterdam, and BA from the University of Toronto and I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I am the author of three books: Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis (Goldsmiths/MIT Press, 2024), Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence (Repeater 2017), Derrida and Foucault: Philosophy, Politics, Polemics (Rowman & LIttlefield 2018); and editor of two volumes: George Caffentzis’ Clipped Coins, Abused Words & Civil Government (Pluto Press, 2021) and Robert Linhart and the Circuitous Paths of Inquiry (Viewpoint, 2022). My book Monopolated Light and Power (with Edward George, Louis Moreno, Ashwani Sharma, 87 Press, 2024) is forthcoming and I have published widely in academic journals including Theory, Culture & Society, South Atlantic Quarterly, Critical Quarterly and Constellations. My writing on art, media, and culture has appeared in The Wire, Frieze, Art Monthly and elsewhere.