91Ó°ÊÓ

Simon teaches new media theory and digital media practice.

His research focusses on the intersection of philosophy of technology with media theory and he is an internationally recognised expert on the work of Gilbert Simondon. He is currently working on developing a Simondonian inspired ethics aligned to the current status of technics.

Prior to joining 91Ó°ÊÓ he worked for several professional web development agencies as well as the trAce Online Writing Centre.

• Media & Communication Research Centre

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Monographs

Mills, S (2016) Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media, Rowman & Littlefield, London.

A philosophical introduction to and interrogation of the work of Gilbert Simondon and its relation to contemporary media technology, communication and information. 

Book Chapters

Mills, S. (forthcoming, 2025) ‘The Optative: Simondon on Technical and Ethical Invention’ in Bardin, A., Ferrari, M. et al (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Simondon. Edinburgh University Press.

Articles

Mills, S. (2015) 'Simondon and Big Data' in Platform Journal of Media & Communication, vol. 6, pp. 59-72 [WWW] available from:

Mills, S. (2011) 'Concrete Software: Simondon’s mechanology and the techno-social' in The Fibreculture Journal, Issue 18 [WWW] available from:

Everitt, D. & Mills, S. (2009) 'Cultural Anxiety 2.0' in Media, Culture & Society, Sage: 31; 749 

• Philosophy of Technology
• Gilbert Simondon
• Complexity & ethics
• Ontology
• Cybernetics
• AI & judgment

• New Media theory
• AI & Society
• Cybernetics
• Philosophy of technology
• Digital publishing

• PhD (University of the West of England) - Gilbert Simondon: Causality, Ontogenesis & Technology (Supervisor: Iain Hamilton Grant) 
• PGCert(HE), De 91Ó°ÊÓ University.
• Msc in Multimedia, Nottingham Trent University.
• M.A. in Writing (Practice & Issues), Nottingham Trent University.
• BA Hons Philosophy, University of Nottingham.

Future Media
New Media (Design & Production)
New Media (Creative Project)

• Invited seminar speaker Situating Simondon’s philosophy of technology, Center for Social & Political Philosophy, Nankai University, 11 November 2024.

• Invited speaker at Gilbert Simondon 1924-2024: 100^th Anniversary International Online Conference, Edinburgh University Press, 1-2 October 2024.

• Keynote Speaker: Culture & Technics: The Politics of Simondon's Du ModeCentre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 13th-15th, 2018.

• Simondon & Big Data (October 2015) Invited speaker at Werkkonferenz, Exhibition Design Institute of the HS Düsseldorf – University of Applied Sciences (HSD).

• Lying About the Future Makes History (September 2011) Conference Paper at Mediating Women, War and Terror, Women’s Media Studies Network; De 91Ó°ÊÓ University.
  
  
• Externalism and Naturalism (August 2011) Conference paper at Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, Human Experience and Nature: Examining the Relationship between Phenomenology and Naturalism; University of the West of England.
  
  
• Simondon and Software (May 2010) Conference paper at Gilbert Simondon: transduction, translation, transformation; American University of Paris, France.
  
  
• Concrete Software (July 2009) Conference paper delivered at Society of Philosophy of Technology: Converging Technologies, Changing Societies conference; University of Twente.
  
  
• Cultural Anxiety 2.0 (September 2007), Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0, University of York. Conference paper co-authored with Dave Everitt.

• Boredom, Absence, Reduction, CongressCath, Bradford, 2005, The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality. Conference paper and exhibition of work.

• Response paper given to Graham Harman, ‘Weird Ontology.’ February 13, 2008. University of the West of England. Bristol, United Kingdom.

Book Chapter

Mills, S. (forthcoming, 2025) ‘The Optative: Simondon on Technical and Ethical Invention’ in Bardin, A., Ferrari, M. et al (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Simondon. Edinburgh University Press.

• Member of editorial advisory board Writing Technologies. [WWW] Available from:

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