Dr Craig Johnson has been a teaching associate in the Media and Communications Program within the School of Culture and Communications since 2022. His scholarly expertise focuses on cultural logics embedded within practices of modernity, modernism, contemporaneity, visual communications, digital media, platform capitalism, video games, art and architecture. He seeks to understand the relationship between twenty-first century modernity and its previous waves and incarnations. Craig's research has been published in leading journals in the media and communications disciplines, including the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds and Media, Culture and Society. Previously, he has held appointments at University of Technology, Sydney, University of New South Wales, UNSW Art & Design, Macquarie University, and RMIT University.

Ongoing academic collaborations:

Games and the Political Unconscious of Play

This is a co-authored academic book with Lecturer in Games & Interactivity, Dr Rowan Tulloch (Macquarie). Video games have become one of the main venues for the development and dissemination of concepts of bleak and destructive futures. Dystopia has arguably become the central organising genre of games, informing games of all other genres.

Cultural Logics of Accelerated Neoliberalism

This is a collaborative book project with digital media scholars and educators, Dr Nataliia Laba (Groningen), Dr Don Sillence (UNSW), and Dr Rowan Tulloch (Macquarie). Evading easy analysis, the emerging cultures of artificial intelligence (AI) are intensifying. This project examines the phenomenon Tulloch & Johnson (2021) have called accelerated neoliberalism', where the choice-defining paradigm of neoliberalism is taken out of the hands of ordinary people and given to algorithms, intelligent assistants, apps, gamed environments, and more.

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