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My educational background is in continental philosophy, especially twentieth century French philosophy, which grounds all of my research. Alongside research directly in philosophy I'm also interested in philosophical themes and intersections in music (especially twentieth century experimental and avant-garde) and the visual and sonic arts (especially modernism and onwards).
My current research is focused on exploring what the term 'experimentation' means and has meant in these fields. I'm currently writing a book on experimentation in the work of John Cage and Gilles Deleuze, contracted to Edinburgh University Press.
Other themes and concepts I've written on include rhythm, art and technology, indeterminacy, semiotics, and materialism in the arts.
I'm also beginning to branch out into more public-facing art writing, and welcome any invitations.
For draft copies of any of the publications below, feel free to contact me at iain.campbell.om@gmail.com.
Publications
Edited books and journal issues
Probability and Agency (with Natasha Lushetich), parallax, 2023
Indeterminacy after AI (with Natasha Lushetich), Leonardo, 2023
Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies (with Natasha Lushetich and Dominic Smith), Rowman and Littlefield, 2022
Improvisation/Indeterminacy: Plays of Inclusion and Exclusion in Musical Performance (with Franziska Schroeder), Contemporary Music Review, 2021
Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (with Natasha Lushetich), Routledge, 2021
Articles
'Beyond the "Last Phenomenology": Rhythmic Modulations in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sensation', Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 2023
'Multi-Agential Situations: A View Through John Cage’s Works for Plant Materials', parallax, 2023
'Experimental Environments and the Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes' (with Desiree Foerster), Leonardo, 2023
'Structuralist heroes and points of heresy: recognizing Gilles Deleuze’s (anti-)structuralism', Continental Philosophy Review, 2022
'Rhythm and Signification: Temporalities of Musical and Social Meaning' (with Peter Nelson), Angelaki, 2022
' "Things begin to speak by themselves": Pierre Schaeffer’s myth of the seashell and the epistemology of sound', Sound Studies, 2021
'Sonic obstacles and conceptual nostalgia: preliminary considerations on musical conceptualism and contemporary art', Philosophical Inquiries, 2021
'Improvisation, Indeterminacy, and Ontology: Some Perspectives on Music and the Posthumanities', Contemporary Music Review, 2021
'Sound’s Matter: "Deleuzian Sound Studies" and the Problems of Sonic Materialism', Contemporary Music Review, 2020
'Deleuze and Guattari’s Semiorhythmology: A Sketch for a Rhythmic Theory of Signs', La Deleuziana, 2019
'John Cage, Gilles Deleuze, and the Idea of Sound', parallax, 2017
Book chapters
'The Charge of Relativism: "Postmodernism" and Post-Truth' (with Lilith Mace), in Simon Truwant and Tarun Kattumana (eds.), The Post-Truth Condition: Philosophical Reflections, Lexington Books, 2024
'Musical Experiments in an Ethics of Listening', in Valery Vinogradovs, Aesthetic Literacy Volume II: Out of Mind, Mongrel Matter, 2023
'How the performer came to be prepared: Three moments in music’s encounter with everyday technologies', in Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell, and Dominic Smith (eds.), Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022
'Sounds Flush with the Real: Mixed Semiotic Strategies in Post-Cagean Musical Experimentalism', in Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici (eds.), Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research, Leuven University Press, 2021
'Becoming-Distributed Matter: Dreaming and Extended Relationality Among Indigenous Australians' (with Barbara Glowczewski), in Natasha Lushetich and Iain Campbell (eds.), Distributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies, Routledge, 2021
'Bachelard and Deleuze on and with Experimental Science, Experimental Philosophy, and Experimental Music', in Guillaume Collett (ed.), Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity, Bloomsbury, 2019
'Avant-Gardes, Afrofuturism, and Philosophical Readings of Rhythm', in Reynaldo Anderson and Clint Fluker (eds.), The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design, Lexington Books, 2019
Book reviews
'Normativity at the edge of reason', a review of Cecile Malaspina, The Epistemology of Noise, Radical Philosophy, 2021
Review of T.J. Demos, Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, Philosophy of Photography, 2018
Review of Joe Panzner, The Process That Is the World: Cage/Deleuze/Events/Performances, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 2018
Review of Pirkko Moisala, Taru Leppänen, Milla Tiainen, and Hanna Väätäinen (eds.), Musical Encounters with Deleuze and Guattari, Music & Letters, 2018
Exhibition and performance reviews
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, 28 November 2024 - 1 June 2025, Tate Modern, London, UK, reviewed in The Burlington Magazine, 2025
Tectonics Festival Glasgow, 4-5 May 2019, City Halls, Glasgow, UK, reviewed in Leonardo Reviews, 2019
Interviews
'Catherine Malabou on Neuroplasticity', an interview with Catherine Malabou, The Future of Indeterminacy, 2020
'Cecile Malaspina on Noise', an interview with Cecile Malaspina, The Future of Indeterminacy, 2020
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