Article

Coley, Rob (2021) Politics of Indeterminacy: Utopia and Crisis in the Essay Film. Screen, 61 (4). pp. 525-544. ISSN 0036-9543

Coley, Rob (2020) In Defence of ‘Noir Theory’: Laruelle, Deleuze, and Other Detectives. Theory, Culture & Society, 37 (3). pp. 123-144. ISSN 0263-2764

Coley, Rob (2018) "Destabilized Perception": Infrastructural Aesthetics in the Films of Adam Curtis. Cultural Politics, 14 (3). pp. 304-326. ISSN 1743-2197

Coley, Rob (2017) ‘A world where nothing is solved’: investigating the anthropocene in True Detective. Journal of Popular Television, 5 (2). ISSN 2046-9861

Coley, Rob (2017) The case of the speculative detective: aesthetic truths and the television ‘crime board’. NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Spring . ISSN 2215-1222

Coley, Rob (2015) Vector portraits, or, photography for the Anthropocene. Philosophy of Photography, 6 (1-2). pp. 51-60. ISSN 2040-3682

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2015) As above, so below: triangulating drone culture. Culture Machine, 16 . pp. 1-19. ISSN 1465-4121

Coley, Rob (2014) The horrors of visuality. Photomediations Machine .

Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean, OMeara, Adam and McSherry, David (2014) Three moments. Photomediations Machine .

Coley, Rob, White, Joanna, McSherry, David and Cooper, Graham (2014) Intervention - Airminded. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography .

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2012) The radical fantastic: fabulatory politics in China Miéville’s cities of ‘Lies-that-Truth’. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, 1 (1). ISSN 2045-5216

Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean and Omeara, Adam (2012) Deleuze and Guattari and photography education. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 23 . ISSN 1555-9998

Review

Coley, Rob (2019) Essays on the Essay Film, ed. N.M. Alter and T. Corrigan. Visual Studies . ISSN 1472-586X

Coley, Rob (2018) Cultural Infrastructure (Review of List Cultures by Liam Cole Young). Cultural Politics, 14 (3). pp. 407-409. ISSN 1743-2197

Coley, Rob (2018) Choose Life (Review of Nonhuman Photography by Joanna Zylinska). Media Theory . ISSN 2557-826X

Coley, Rob (2014) After the aftermath. Reviews in Cultural Theory, 5 (2). ISSN 1918-9710

Coley, Rob (2014) Digital memory and the archive (Wolfgang Ernst). Journal of American Studies of Turkey . ISSN 1300-6606

Coley, Rob (2011) Premediation: affect and mediality after 9/11 (Richard Grusin). Journal of Visual Culture, 10 (3). pp. 412-415. ISSN 1470-4129

Book Section

Coley, Rob (2021) Street Smarts for Smart Streets. In: Surreal Entanglements: Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s Fiction. Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment . Routledge, pp. 147-168. ISBN 9780367360849

Coley, Rob (2018) Street smarts for smart streets. In: Visualizing the street: new practices of documenting, navigating and imagining the city. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789462984356

Coley, Rob (2016) Mapping the contours of vectoral space: inaugural statement of the Committee for Aeronautical Psychogeography. In: Radical space: exploring politics and practice. Radical Cultural Studies . Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9781783481521, 9781783481514, 9781783481538

Coley, Rob (2016) The horrors of visuality. In: Photomediations: a reader. Open Humanities Press, pp. 290-310. ISBN 9781785420023

Coley, Rob (2015) 'I don’t believe you...you’re a liar': the fabulatory function of Bob Dylan. In: Refractions of Dylan: cultural appropriations of an American icon. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719097164

Paper or Report

Hicks, Leslie, Dagg, Jenny, Adiseshiah, Siân, Bell, Erin, Coley, Rob, Culley, Amy, Gray, Ann, Kearns, Janice, OMeara, Adam, Piggott, David and Winn, Joss (2014) Telling our Stories. Project Report. AHRC.

Conference or Workshop contribution

Coley, Rob (2017) ‘Destabilized perception’: narrative as network in the films of Adam Curtis. In: Essay Film and Narrative Techniques: Screenwriting Non-Fiction, Symposium of the BAFTSS ‘Essay Film’ Research Group, 18-19 November, 2017, University of York.

Coley, Rob (2016) Street smarts for smart streets. In: Visualizing the Street, 16-17 June, 2016, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam.

Coley, Rob (2016) Ecological detection. In: Photomediations: A Symposium, 19 February, 2016, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Coley, Rob (2015) The terminal city: elemental politics and mediated urbanism. In: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy ( ECREA Communication and Democracy conference 2015), 9-10 October, Copenhagen Business School.

Coley, Rob (2015) Tradecraft accelerated, or, The spy who ceased being afraid of becoming mad. In: Spying on Spies: Popular Representations of Spies and Espionage, 3-5 September 2015, University of Warwick at The Shard.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2015) A causeway around picture: Muybridge’s solar darkness. In: Rethinking Early Photography, 16th-17th June, University of Lincoln.

Coley, Rob (2015) Vector portraits, or, photography for the Anthropocene. In: 21st century photography: art, philosophy, technique, 5-6 June, 2015, Central Saint Martins.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2015) Dreaming the drone. In: School of Arts and Media Research Seminar, 3 June, 2015, University of Salford.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2015) Arcanum of the exploded camera. In: School of Film and Media Research Seminar, 15th April, 2015, University of Lincoln.

Coley, Rob (2015) Confronting an inhuman world. In: The Anthropocene and the threat to the human (21st Century Research Group), 4th March, 2015, University of Lincoln.

Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean and OMeara, Adam (2014) As above, so below: triangulating drone culture. In: As Above, So Below: A Colloquium on Drone Culture, 24 May, 2014, University of Lincoln.

Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean and Micali, Alberto (2014) Fictive-friction: cyberpunk reprised. In: Friction: An interdisciplinary conference on technology and resistance, 8-9 May, 2014, University of Nottingham.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2014) Paraphotographic belief, or, critical horror. In: Helsinki Photomedia: Photographic Powers, 26-28 March 2014, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki.

Coley, Rob (2014) Visuality and the vector: mapping and hijacking drone culture. In: Autonomy and Automation: Robotics, AI and the Digital Cultural Future, 8th March, 2014, Pervasive Media Studio, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2014) Photography in a war universe: control answers. In: Beyond the Cut-Up: William S Burroughs and the Image, 15th February, 2014, The Photographer's Gallery, London.

Coley, Rob, Kearns, Janice and OMeara, Adam (2014) The ins and outs of imaging: community filmmaking beyond representation. In: Community Filmmaking and Cultural Diversity: Practice, Innovation and Policy, 22-23 January, 2014, BFI Southbank.

Coley, Rob (2013) Minutes of the Society for Ontofabulatory Research: report from the Committee for Aeronautical Psychogeography. In: Radical Space, 18-20 October, 2013, Centre for Cutural Studies Research, University of East London.

Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean and OMeara, Adam (2013) Refraining photography for a post-media era. In: On the Verge of Photography: Imaging, Mobile Art, Humans & Computers, 24-25 May, 2013, Birmingham School of Art.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2013) Cloud time and the ethics of mediation. In: Philosophy of Education Seminar on The Ethics of Information Technology, 23 January, 2013, Liverpool Hope University.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2012) Cloud time. In: The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, 22 October, 2012, New York University.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2012) Worming-worlding: reading as fabulatory infection in China Miéville’s Weird. In: Weird Council: An International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville, 14-15 September 2012, Institute of English Studies, University of London.

Coley, Rob, Kearns, Janice and Lockwood, Dean (2012) Dreams never end: Carol Morley’s documentary fabulation. In: Powers of the False, 18-19 May 2012, Institut Francais, London.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2011) Digging a deeper hole: cloud computing and the tame ghost of radicalism. In: Platform Politics, 12 - 13 May, 2011, Anglia Ruskin University.

Coley, Rob (2011) ‘I don’t believe you...you’re a liar’: the fabulatory function of Bob Dylan. In: Refractions of Bob Dylan: Cultural Appropriations of an American Icon, 19-21 May, 2011, University of Vienna.

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2010) Cloud games: reinventing invention-power. In: The Experimental Society, 7-9 July, 2010, Lancaster University.

Book or Monograph

Lockwood, Dean and Coley, Rob (2016) Photography in the middle: dispatches on media ecologies and aesthetics. Punctum, Brooklyn: New York. ISBN 9780998237510, 0998237515

Coley, Rob and Lockwood, Dean (2012) Cloud time: the inception of the future. Zero Books. ISBN 1780990952, 9781780990958

Thesis

Coley, Rob (2013) Visuality and the virtual: mediation and control in network ecologies. PhD thesis, University of Lincoln.

Event, Show or Exhibition

Coley, Rob, Lockwood, Dean, OMeara, Adam and McSherry, David (2015) Three moments. [Event, Show or Exhibition]

Coley, Rob, White, Joanna, McSherry, David and Cooper, Graham (2014) Airminded. [Event, Show or Exhibition]

Coley, Rob, White, Joanna, McSherry, David and Cooper, Graham (2013) Airminded. [Event, Show or Exhibition]

Coley, Rob, White, Joanna, McSherry, David and Cooper, Graham (2013) Airminded. [Event, Show or Exhibition]

Coley, Rob and OMeara, Adam (2013) Commonly un/grounded. [Event, Show or Exhibition]

Coley, Rob (2010) Gemeinshaft/Gesellshaft. [Event, Show or Exhibition]

Coley, Rob (2009) Après-coup. [Event, Show or Exhibition]