Dr Stevphen Shukaitis
![Dr Stevphen Shukaitis](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/SHUKA90902.jpg)
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Email
sshuka@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874283
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Location
EBS.3.18, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Spring 2024: Tuesdays 11-12, Fridays 10-12
Profile
Qualifications
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BA, Sociology & Journalism (East Stroudsburg University)
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MA, Sociology (New School for Social Research)
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PhD, Class Composition Analysis (Antonio Negri School of Business) Queen Mary University of London,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
cultural production and contemporary capitalism
social theory
artistic labour
social and political imaginaries
communication technologies
avant-gardes and aesthetics
continental philosophy
social movements
intellectual and social history
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Understanding Value and Values (BE402)
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Management and the Cultural Industries (BE418)
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Social Economy Management: Putting the Social Economy Into Practice (BE496)
Previous supervision
![James David Fox](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/FOXJA72102.jpg?mh=60&)
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 18/12/2023
![Ekaterina Tarnovskaya](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/TARNO52906.jpg?mh=60&)
Degree subject: Sociology
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 2/9/2021
![Tyler James Hinson](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/HINSO87709.jpg?mh=60&)
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 5/6/2018
![Amir Elmi Keshtiban](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/ELMIK11202.jpg?mh=60&)
Degree subject: Management Studies
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 7/3/2018
![Christopher Collier](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/COLLI43105.jpg?mh=60&)
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 16/6/2017
Publications
Journal articles (37)
Shukaitis, S., (2024). :Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City. American Journal of Sociology. 129 (4), 1306-1308
Shukaitis, S., (2024). Years of Untying Knots Gee Vaucher and Collaging the Politics of the Family between Ernst and Laing. Journal of Avant-Garde Studies. 4 (3), 1-21
Shukaitis, S. and Liew, S., (2023). Reimagining the Comic Form: History, Narrative, and the Work of Sonny Liew. Southeast of Now. 7 (1), 177-198
Shukaitis, S. and Rudolf, J., (2021). Introduction to the special issue on alternative education/educational alternatives. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching. 4 (Special Issue 1), 6-8
Parker, M., Rudolph, J., Shukaitis, S. and Tan, S., (2021). Strategic utopianism and the avoidance of dualisms: an interview with Martin Parker. Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching. 4 (Special Issue 1), 60-73
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., (2020). Knows no weekend: the psychological contract of cultural work in precarious times. Journal of Cultural Economy. 13 (3), 290-302
Shukaitis, S., (2019). Individuals Against Individualism: Art Collectives in Western Europe (1956-1969). ART HISTORY. 42 (1), 184-188
Shukaitis, S., (2019). Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism. ART HISTORY. 42 (1), 184-188
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., (2019). Publishing to Find Comrades. Lateral. 8 (2)
(2019). The Play’s the Thing… an introduction to the Special Section on “Pedagogy & Play in Teaching Today”. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching. 2 (2), 45-47
(2019). Learning inside the magic circle: An interview with Curious Chimeras. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching. 2 (2), 56-62
Gilman-Opalsky, R. and Shukaitis, S., (2018). Spectral Compositions in a Time of Revolt. ASAP/Journal. 3 (2), 313-331
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., (2015). The Factory of Individuation: Cultural Labor and Class Composition in the Metropolis. South Atlantic Quarterly. 114 (3), 535-552
Shukaitis, S., (2015). Spaces of Collaboration: An Interview with Ken Vandermark. Seisimopolite: A Journal of Art & Politics
Shukaitis, S., (2015). What Are You Reading For? Modes of Critique, Modes of Production. Cahiers de l?idiotie. 6, 266-277
Shukaitis, S., (2014). ‘Theories are made only to die in the war of time’: Guy Debord and the Situationist International as strategic thinkers. Culture and Organization. 20 (4), 251-268
Shukaitis, S., (2014). Learning Not to Labor. Rethinking Marxism. 26 (2), 193-205
McKenzie, J., Edkins, T. and Shukaitis, S., (2014). Revisiting Jon McKenzie?s Perform or else: Performance, labour and pedagogy. ephemera theory & politics in organization. 14 (3), 525-543
Figiel, J., Shukaitis, S. and Walker, A., (2014). The politics of workers' inquiry. ephemera theory & politics in organization. 14 (3), 307-314
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., (2013). Metropolitan Strategies, Psychogeographic Investigations. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 13 (6), 536-543
Shukaitis, S., (2013). We hate the users. An Interview with UBERMORGEN. Mute Magazine
Shukaitis, S., (2013). Can the object be a comrade?. ephemera: theory & politics in organization. 13 (2), 437-444
Shukaitis, S., (2013). Recomposing precarity: Notes on the laboured politics of class composition. ephemera theory & politics in organization. 13 (3), 641-658
Feigenbaum, A., Shukaitis, S., Barbagallo, C., Brekke, JK., Buck, M., Heckert, J., Kanuga, M., Rekret, P. and Stephens, J., (2013). Writing in a movement: a roundtable on radical publishing and autonomous infrastructure. Interface: a journal for and about social movements. 5 (1), 253-271
Lim, M. and Shukaitis, S., (2012). Editorial. Culture and Organization. 18 (5), 341-343
Shukaitis, S., (2012). Symphony of the Surplus/Value : Notes on labour, valorization and sabotage in the metropolitan factory. Performance Research. 17 (6), 48-55
Shukaitis, S., (2012). Below the Perceptible, the Political?. Rethinking Marxism. 24 (3), 424-427
Shukaitis, S., (2011). Fascists as Much as Painters: Imagination, Overidentification, and Strategies of Intervention. The Sociological Review. 59 (3), 597-615
Shukaitis, S., (2011). In, Against, and Beyond the Empire Trilogy. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 35 (4), 328-334
Shukaitis, S., (2011). Fascists as much as painters: imagination, overidentification, and strategies of intervention. The Sociological Review. 59 (3), 597-615
Shukaitis, S., (2010). Affective Labor and Social Movements. Przeglad Anarchistyczny - The Anarchist Review. 11
Shukaitis, S., (2010). Sisyphus & the Labor of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management. Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture and Action. 4 (1)
Shukaitis, S., (2009). Space is the (Non)Place: Martians, Marxists, and the Outer Space of the Radical Imagination. The Sociological Review. 57 (1_suppl), 98-113
Shukaitis, S. and Graeber, D., (2009). Practice as a form of knowledge, knowledge as a form of action. The Anarchist Review. 9
Shukaitis, S., (2009). Space is the (non)place: Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination. The Sociological Review. 57 (S1), 98-113
Shukaitis, S., (2008). Dancing Amidst the Flames: Imagination and Self-Organization in a Minor Key. Organization. 15 (5), 743-764
Shukaitis, S. and Lichtenfeld, R., (2002). Tragedy of the common: Markedness and the creation of mundane tragedy. Journal of Mundane Behavior. 3 (3)
Books (6)
Allepuz, P., Borja-Villel, M. and Fokianaki, I., (2023). Machinations Exposition, Reina Sofia, Du 21 Juin Au 28 Août. 8480266465. 9788480266468
Sollier, P., (2022). Kicks, Spits, and Headers The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer. Minor Compositions. 1570273936. 9781570273933
Shukaitis, S., (2019). Combination Acts. Notes on Collective Practice in the Undercommons. Autonomedia. 9781570273551
Shukaitis, S., (2016). The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics & Cultural Labor After the Avant-Garde. Rowman & Littlefield International. 9781783481736
Shukaitis, S., (2016). Gee Vaucher: An Introspective. Minor Compositions. 0948252464. 978-1570273155
Shukaitis, S., (2009). Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life. Autonomedia. 9781570272080
Book chapters (10)
Shukaitis, S., (2021). Class Composition and the (Non)Emergence of the Multitude. In: Politics of the Many Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency. Editors: Halligan, B., Penzin, A., Pippa, S. and Carson, R., . Bloomsbury Publishing. 103- 113. 9781350105645
Shukaitis, S., (2017). Pedagogical Labour in an Age of Devalued Reproduction. In: Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. 19- 26
Shukaitis, S., (2015). Icons of Futures Past: IRWIN, Neue Slowenische Kunst, and the Spiritual Politics of Artistic Provocation. In: NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst - The Event of the Final Decade of Yugoslavia. Editors: Badovinac, Z., Čufer, E. and Gardner, A., . MIT Press. 9780262029957
Shukaitis, S., (2015). Power, Knowledge, Hatred: Notes on Antagonism & Autonomist Epistemology. In: Bad Feelings. Editors: Art Against Cuts and Power, N., . Bookworks. 978-1906012588
Shukaitis, S., (2014). Art Strike. In: Truth is Concrete - a Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics. Editors: Malzacher, F. and Herbst, S., . Sternberg Press. 978-3943365849
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., (2013). Politics, Arts and Markets. In: The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing. Editors: O'Reilly, D., Rentschler, R. and Kirchner, T., . Routledge. 20- 28. 978-0-415-78350-7
Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., (2013). Art, politics, and markets. In: The Routledge Companion to Arts Marketing. 20- 28
(2011). Anarchism & Sexuality. In: Anarchism and Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power. Editors: Heckert, J. and Cleminson, R., . Routledge. 45- 66. 9780203828441
Shukaitis, S. and Kanngieser, A., (2010). Cultural Workers, Throw Down Your Tools, The Metropolis Is On Strike. In: Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists vol. 2. Editors: Naik, D. and Oldfield, T., . Myrdle Court Press,. 64- 75. 978-0-9563539-1-7
(2009). Contemporary Anarchist Studies. In: Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy. Editors: Amster, R., DeLeon, A., Fernandez, L., Nocella, II. and Shannon, D., . Routledge. 166- 174. 9780203891735
Reports and Papers (2)
Shukaitis, S., (2012). "Theories are made only to die in the war of time": Guy Debord & the Situationist International as Strategic Thinkers
Shukaitis, S. and Biddle, E., (2010). Reshaping Resistance: Art Strikes & Cultural Labor Today
Exhibitions (3)
Vaucher, G. and Shukaitis, S., Gee Vaucher: Introspective. Collage, painting, video, sculpture, archival materials
Shukaitis, S., #WorldsUpsideDown. Painting, video, participatory installation
Shukaitis, S., Stop the City… Revisited. Archival materials, installation, live event
Media (1)
Shukaitis, S., Harney, S., Moten, F. and Lee, Z., Refusing Completion
Other (3)
Shukaitis, S., (2015).No Stars, no Solos ? just Sound, Motion, and Energy: an Interview with John Gruntfest,Mute Magazine
Shukaitis, S., (2015).From Nation Time to management time,The Wire
Shukaitis, S., (2015).Cognitive Capitalism & the Limits of Sabotage,Frisk Flugt: Sabotage (OVO Press)
Grants and funding
2022
Promoting Commons Presents and Futures
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
Augmented Engagement in Sustainable Cooperative Music Production
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
2018
Firstsite Industrial Challenge
University of Essex
2011
The Metropolitan Factory: The Labour of Self-Management in Creative Clusters
The British Academy
Contact
Academic support hours:
Spring 2024: Tuesdays 11-12, Fridays 10-12