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Nicholas
Ruiz III |
Associate
Professor of Cultural Arts
Department
of Cultural Arts
1200
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Education |
· Ph.D.
Interdisciplinary Humanities, (2006)
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MLA. Liberal Arts, (2003)
· B.S.
Molecular Biology & Microbiology, (1996)
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Publications |
Book
chapter with Vincent Leitch, “Ch. 4: Theory Fusions”
in Vincent Leitch, Living with Theory, (Blackwell,
2008, forthcoming)
Integral
Reality, (with Robert Hassan), (Intertheory Press, 2008), forthcoming
The
Metaphysics of Capital, (Intertheory Press, 2006)
review,
Giovanni Boniolo and Gabriele de Anna (eds.), Evolutionary Ethics and
Contemporary Biology, Metapsychology, February 20, 2007, http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3509
“La
Conchita” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, January 2007, Volume 4,
Number 1, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/
“Žižek!
A conversation with Paul A. Taylor (editor of The International Journal of
Žižek Studies),” Kritikos, Volume 4, January 2007, http://intertheory.org
“An
Era of Zoē and Bios?: A
conversation with Eugene Thacker” Kritikos, Volume 3, August 2006, http://intertheory.org
“Gates’
Buffet, or Fail-Safe Philanthropy” Kritikos, Volume 3, July 2006, http://intertheory.org
review,
Austin Burt and Robert Trivers, Genes in Conflict,
Metapsychology, June 27, 2006, http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3171
“All
Capital’s Children: Thanking bruinalumni.com” Kritikos, Volume 3, January 2006,
http://intertheory.org
“The
Total Screen as a Paradigm for Critical Theory” Genre, 2006, Volume 25, http://www.csulb.edu/depts/complit/genre/g_back_issues.htm
“Theory,
Interdisciplinarity, and the Humanities Today: An interview with Vincent B. Leitch (editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and
Criticism),” InterCulture, Volume 2, Issue 3, Fall 2005, http://www.fsu.edu/~proghum/interculture/vol2.html
“Portents
of the Real: The Heart’s Filthy Lesson” review of Susan Willis, Portents of the
Real Kritikos, Volume 2, December 2005, http://intertheory.org
“The
Illusory Nation: Why Pat Buchanan’s America Never Has or Will Exist” Public
Resistance, Volume 1, Number 2, September 11, 2005, http://www.publicresistance.org/
review,
Robert Hassan, The Chronoscopic Society: Globalization, Time and Knowledge in
the Network Economy, Space and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 4, 487-489, November
(2005) http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/8/4/487
“An
interview with Gerry Coulter (editor of the International Journal of
Baudrillard Studies)” Kritikos, Volume 2, September 2005, http://intertheory.org
review,
Robert Pepperell and Michael Punt, The Postdigital
Membrane: Imagination, Technology and Desire,
“The
Sovereignty of the Code” Noema Tecnologie
e Societŕ, (
“A
Gift for the Real” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, January 2005,
Volume 2, Number 1, ISSN: 1705-6411, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/
“Global
Capital: The Currency of the Code” Kritikos, Volume 2, April 2005, ISSN:
1552-5112, http://intertheory.org
“An
Interview with McKenzie Wark (author of A Hacker Manifesto)” Kritikos, Volume
2, April 2005, ISSN: 1552-5112, http://intertheory.org
review,
W.J.
“Kritikos
Channel presents: An Interview with Ethan J. Leib (author of Deliberative
Democracy in
“Polity
Is as Polity Does” review, Ethan J. Leib, Deliberative Democracy in America,
InterCulture, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring 2005, http://www.fsu.edu/~proghum/interculture/vol2.html
“Globalizing
Mediated Bodies: Nucleic Acid and Recombinative Culture” Rhizomes.net: Cultural
Studies in Emerging Knowledge, Issue 9, Fall 2004, http://www.rhizomes.net/home.html
“The
Art of Media Disobedience in the 21st Century” Media/Culture.org.au—M/C
Reviews feature issue: Objection or Obstruction: The Culture of Protest in the
Twenty-First Century, co-edited by Jodi Crome and
Kate Cuthbert, November 2004, ISSN: 1441-2616, http://www.media-culture.org.au/
review,
Eugene Thacker, Biomedia,
“The
Metaphysics of Capital” Kritikos, Volume 1, July 2004, ISSN: 1552-5112, http://intertheory.org
review,
Jurgen Habermas, Religion and Rationality, MA: MIT
Press (2002), Reconstruction: studies in contemporary culture, Spring 2004:
Volume 4, Number 2, ISSN: 1547-4348, http://www.reconstruction.ws/
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Web
Art |
“Life
after progress (royksopp—only this moment mix)”
-audio, Kritikos, Volume 3, September 2006
“Le
Dieu Recombinant” -audio, Kritikos, Volume 2, October 2005
“Sans
la Culture” –audio, ConcertHall at Le Musée di-visionistee: SoundLab Channel:
Edition 2, February 2005, http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/concerthall/start1.htm
“La
monnaie vivante ” -audio, Kritikos, Volume 2, March
2005
“A-Life”
-audio, Kritikos, Volume 2, January 2005
“Globalizing
Mediated Bodies: Another Line of Flight” -audio, Kritikos, Volume 1, October
2004
“The
Sovereignty of the Code—part II” -audio, Kritikos, Volume 1, October 2004
“Baudrillard’s
Consumer” -video, Kritikos, Volume 1, January 2004
“PJ’s Challenge” -audio, Kritikos, Volume 1, January 2004
“Thicker
Than Water” –photograph, Kritikos, Volume 1, January 2004
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Teaching
Experience |
Face
to face, web, and hybrid courses
Associate
Professor of Cultural Arts, (2007-present)
Humanities
I
Humanities
II
World
Religion
Philosophy
I
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, (2007)
The
Ancient World
Adjunct
Assistant Professor, (2005-2007)
Bioethics
Ethics
Critical
Thinking
Interdisciplinary
Studies
History
of Ideas in Civilization
Graduate
Teaching Instructor, (2003-2006)
Multicultural
Film and Twentieth-Century Culture
Modern
Culture: Enlightenment to Postmodernity
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Conferences/Seminars |
Moderator
on -empyre-, October 2007: “DNA Poetics”
“The
Metaphysics of Capital,” presented at:
The
Society for Philosophy and Technology, 2007 Biennial Meeting on Technology and
Globalization
note:
accepted, but not presented due to unforeseen circumstances.
Co-moderator
on -empyre-, March 2007: “Baudrillard’s énoncé, or The Future of Theory”
Symposium,
March 2007: “
Chair,
moderator
http://intertheory.org/symposium
guest
contributor on -empyre-, February 2006: “Sedition”
-empyre- (based in Australia) facilitates critical
perspectives on contemporary cross-disciplinary issues, practices and events in
networked media by inviting guests -key new media artists,
curators, theorists, producers and others to participate in thematic discussions. http://www.subtle.net/empyre/
“The
Resurrection of Capital: An Answer to the Question of the Multitude,” presented
at:
Grave
ReMarx: The Dead Keep Accumulating…
“Without
Culture: In Memoriam,” presented at:
Trans/national
Film and Literature: Cultural Production and the Claims of History, 30th Annual
Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
January 27-29, 2005, http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2005/
“Film
and Media Studies as a Paradigm for Critical Theory in the 21st Century,”
presented at:
Society
for Literature, Science and the Arts, Annual Meeting 2004—with the cooperation
of
National
Meeting of the Popular Culture/American Culture & Southwest Texas/Popular
Culture & American Culture Associations, April 7 - 10, 2004, San Antonio,
Texas, http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
The
Persistence of Form: Culture, History, and the Aesthetic, 29th Annual
Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL,
January 29-February 1, 2004, http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2004/
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Certification
and Awards |
·
Program for Instructional Excellence Teaching Certificate (2003)
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Conference Grant,
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Service |
·
Editor, Kritikos, http://intertheory.org
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Co-moderator, Empyre http://www.subtle.net/empyre/
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Co-editor, InterCulture, http://www.fsu.edu/~proghum/interculture/homepage.html
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Affiliate editor, Reconstruction, http://www.reconstruction.ws/
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Global Studies Advisory Group,
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Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
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·
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
· American Association for the Advancement
of Science
University of North Carolina-Asheville—The
American Association of University
Professors
Daytona Beach College Surf Club, faculty
advisor
Daytona Beach College Philosophy Club,
regular contributor
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Projects |
· Hybrid
Course development for HUM 3321--Multicultural Film and Twentieth-Century Culture;
HUM 2250 Modern Culture: Enlightenment to Postmodernity
· Webmaster
for the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities,
