Dr. Jody Berland
Professor
Department of Humanities
232 Vanier College, York University
4700 Keele St, Toronto ON M3J 1P3
jberland@yorku.ca
(416) 736-2100 x 77393
Books
"North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space." Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
Edited Books
"Cultural Capital: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art." Edited with Shelley Hornstein McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000
"Theory Rules: Art and Theory/Theory as Art." Edited with Will Straw and David Tomas, YYZ Books / University of Toronto Press, 1996
Book Chapters
“Writing on the Border.” Between Empires: A Canadian Cultural Studies Reader. Eds. Gail Faurchou, Sourayan Mookerjea and Imre Szeman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009, 472-487. Book chapter.
“Postmusics” in Sonic Synergies, edited by Gerry Bloustein. Palgrave, 2008.
“The Musicking Machine” in Residual Media, edited by Charles Acland. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
“Space at the Margins: Colonial Spatiality and Critical Theory after Innis” (excerpt) in Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art. Edited by John O’Brian and Peter White. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.
“Radio Space and Industrial Time: The Case of Music Formats” in Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, edited by Simon Frith, Routledge, 2003
“Radio Space and Industrial Time: The Case of Music Formats” in Critical Cultural Policies, edited by Justin Lewis and Toby Miller, Blackwell Press, 2002
“Cultural Technologies and the 'Evolution" of Technological Cultures” in
Contemporary Cultural Theory and the World Wide Web, edited by Andrew Herman and Thomas Swiss, Routledge, 2001
“Bodies of Theory, Bodies of Pain: Some Silences” in Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2000, edited by. Hilary Robinson, Blackwell Press, 2001
With Will Straw “Getting Down to Business: Cultural Politics and Policies in Canada” (revised from 1994) in Communications in Canadian Society, Fifth edition, edited by Benjamin Singer and Craig McKie, Thompson Educational Publishing, 2001
”Nationalism and the Modernist Legacy: Dialogues with Innis” in Capital Culture, edited by Berland and S. Hornstein, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000
“Space at the Margins: Colonial Spatiality and Critical Theory After Innis” in Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions, edited by Charles Acland and Bill Buxton, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2000
“Das Wetter und wir. Wie Nature und Kultur sich miteinander vershranken,” in Widerspenstige Kulturen: Cultural Studies als Herausforderung, edited by Karl H. Norning und Rainer Winter, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999 (In German)
“Weathering the North: Climate, Colonialism and the Mediated Body” in Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada, edited by L. Van Luven and P. Walton, Prentice-Hall, 1999
“Imaging Weather: TV and the Celestial Panoptikon” in Culture Lab, Volume 2, edited by Brian Boigon, Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
“Locating Listening: Technological Space, Popular Music, Canadian Mediation” in The Place of Music: Music, Space and the Production of Place, edited byAndrew Leyshon, David Matless and George Revill, Guilford Press, 1998
“Weathering the North: Climate, Colonialism and the Mediated Body” in Pop Can: Popular Culture in Canada, edited by Lynne van Weuten and Priscilla Walton,Prentice-Hall, 1998
*“Mapping Space: Imaging Technologies and the Planetary Body” in Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinson and Michael Menser (editors), Technoscience and Cyberculture, Routledge, 1996
“Video, Language, the Common/place” in The (best) Source Book on Canadian ArtistsVideo edited by Peggy Gale and Lisa Steele, Art Metropole, 1996
*“Bodies of Theory, Bodies of Pain: Some Silences” in Jody Berland, Will Straw, David Tomas (editors) Theory Rules: Proceedings of the Art and Theory/Theory as Art Conference YYZ/University of Toronto Press, 1996
“Remote Sensors: Canada in Space” in Jordan Zinovich (editor), Canadas, Semiotexte, 1994
*With Will Straw “Getting Down to Business: Contemporary Cultural Politics and Policies” (revised) in Communications in Canadian Society, Fourth (revised) edition, edited by Benjamin Singer, Nelson, 1994
*“Radio Space and Industrial Time: the Case of Music Formats” in Canadian Music: Issues of Hegemony and Identity edited by Beverley Diamond and Robert Witmer, Canadian Scholars' Press, 1994
“Radio, the State and Sound Government” in Radio Rethink, edited by Daina Augaitus and Dan Lander, Walter Phillips Publications, 1994 (originally appeared under the title "Toward a Creative Anachronism" In Public, No.4/5, 1990/91)
*“Weathering the North: Climate, Colonialism and the Mediated Body” in Relocating Cultural Studies, edited by Valda Blundell, John Shepherd and Ian Taylor, Routledge, 1993
*“Sound, Image, and Social Space: Music Video and Media Reconstruction” in Sound and Vision: The Music Television Reader, edited by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, and Lawrence Grossberg, Routledge,1993
*“Radio Space and Industrial Time: The case of music formats” Rock and Popular Music: Politics, Policies and Institutions edited by Tony Bennett, Simon Frith, and John Shepherd, Griffith University Institute for Cultural Policy Studies, Routledge, 1993
*“Contradicting Media: Toward a Political Phenomenology of Listening” Radiotext(e), edited by Neil Strauss and Dave Mandl, Semiotext(e), 1993
*“Angels Dancing: Cultural Technologies and the Production of Space” in Cultural Studies, edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler, Routledge, 1991 (Reprinted in Trajectories: Towards a New Internationalist Cultural Studies, editor, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Tsing Hua University, 1992)
*With Will Straw “Getting Down to Business: Contemporary Cultural Politics and Policies” in Communications in Canadian Society, Third Edition, edited by Benjamin Singer: Nelson, 1991
Journal Articles
“Animal And/as Medium: Symbolic Work in Communicative Regimes.” Global South, Vol 1 No 3, Spring 2009, 42-65. Journal article.
“The Politics of the Exasperated: Arts and Culture in Canada.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, Vol, 33 No 3, 2009, 24-30. Journal article
Communicating Animals: Desire and Damage in Digital Regimes. Global South (in press) Fall 2008.
“Cat and Mouse: Iconographies of Nature and Desire,” Cultural Studies, Vol. 22 No 2, Spring 2008.
“Spatial Narratives in the Canadian Imaginary,” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory Politics. No. 57: Space and Text, 2005/6, 39-55.
“Walkerton: The Memory of Matter,” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 14, Fall 2005, 93-108.
“Writing on the Border” CR: The New Centennial Review 1.2, 2001, 139-170
“Nationalism and the Modernist Legacy: Dialogues with Innis” Culture and Policy Vol 8 No. 3, Brisbane, 1997, 9-37
“Space at the Margins: Critical Theory and Colonial Spatiality after Innis” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 1, 1997, 55-82
“Politics after Nationalism, Culture after Culture” Canadian Journal of American Studies: Special Issue, Proceedings of the Trade Marks CAAS Conference, 1997
“Marginal Notes: Cultural Studies in Canada” in University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 64 No. 4, 1995, pp 514-523
Editorials
“Topia at Ten” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies #18, Fall 2007
“Images, Memories, Properties.” Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, #12, Fall 2004, 5-7.
“Culture and Technology,” with Bob Hanke and Gary Genosko. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 11, 2004.
“Music and Memory” with William Echard, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 6, 2001
“Editorial, Technoscience” with Sarah Kember, New Formations 29: Technoscience, 1996, v-vii.
“Environmental Matters” with Jennifer Daryl Slack, Cultural Studies Vol. 8 No 1, 1994.
Catalogue Essays
“Lecture Notes” in Lecture Notes, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Ingrid Jenkner and Jody Berland, 2005
“Walkerton: The Memory of Matter” n明, Locus Plus, Newcastle-on-Thyme, 2000
“Valuing the View" in Paysage(s) de la video, Galerie UQAM, 1994
“Condemned to Meaning: sex, gender, knowledge, pain” in RX: Let's Play Doctor edited by Monika Gagnon, Vancouver/Toronto: Artspeak and Power Plant, 1993
“Fire and Flame, Lightning and Landscape: Tourism and Nature in Banff, Alberta” in Between Views and Points of View, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, 1991
Recent Lectures
and Panel Presentations
Plenary speaker, Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Northeastern University, Boston, January 2008.
Plenary speaker, "Ecologies of War," University at Albany, State University of New York, Nov. 2007
Guest Lecture, "Hello Kitty: The work of nature in the age of digital communication." The Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), University of British Columbia, Nov. 2007
Guest Lecture, "Cat and Mouse," Art History and Visual Art, UBC, Nov. 2007
Panel Presentation, "Indigenous Knowledges and the Environment," CCIE, UBC, Nov. 2007
Guest Lecture, "Writing on the Border," Department of English, University of Victoria, Nov. 2007
“Where is environmental cultural studies?” Cultural Studies Now, University of East London, July 2007.
“Animal as/and medium: Symbolic work in communicative regimes.” In Interfaces and Visualizations: A State-of-the-Art Conference on the Humanities in Post-Human Times, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, April 2007.
Symbolic regimes and rituals of violence: law, order and torment in the history of cats. In “Representing Animals,” Department of Sociology, Brock University, March 2007
“Cats and Crime” in “Kindred Spirits,” University of Indiana, Bloomington, Sept 2006
“Profile fetishism in the capitalist university” (with Bob Hanke) in Conference of the Union for Democratic Communications, Boca Raton, Florida, 2006
“McLuhan today.” Probing McLuhan: Understanding Media Culture, Chair and Moderator. Toronto International McLuhan Festival and TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, co-sponsors, October 2004.
“Walkerton: The memory of Matter.” Crossroads: Association of Cultural Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
With Bob Hanke “The Wychwood Carbarns Park Project: Cultural Theory, Research Practice, and Local Politics,” in Culturepoles: City Spaces, Urban Politics and Metropolitan Theory, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, 2004
“The Value of Culture and the Culture of Values: The Canadian Dilemma.” Conference on Terror and Justice in Canada Post 9/11, University of Saskatoon, September 2003
“Progress in print.” The future of scholarly publishing: whither the social sciences and humanities? Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Association of Learned Journals. Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Halifax 2003
“The New Technology and Public Space,” Media Convergence and the Future of Democracy, University of Regina 2002
Chair, “Canadian Cultural Studies: Past, Present and Future,” Cultural Spaces/Canadian Spaces, Canadian Association of Cultural Studies, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Toronto 2002
Presenter, Roundtable, Discussion of Empire, CACS, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2002
“Media history and the construction of celebrity”. Tough Love: Celebrity Meets Identity. Third Annual Festival of Independent Film and Video, Windsor 1997
“Cultural technologies and the ＆evolution＊ of technological cultures,” International Communication Association, Montreal 1997
“Cultural technologies and the ＆evolution＊ of technological cultures,” Media Imaginaries, University of Sydney, 1996
“The Concept of Nature in the Information Age”, Digital Gardens, The Power Plant, Toronto 1996
“Stories that Matter.” Moderator and speaker. Conference on Popular Culture, University of Toronto/Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1995
“Politics after Nationalism, Culture after Culture.” Canadian Association of American Studies: Trade Marks: Culture, Commerce, Identity. Toronto 1995
