PhD in Postdigital Cultures- Digital Arts, Humanities and Posthumanities

Coventry University

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) brings together media theorists, practitioners, activists and artists from more than 15 countries to critically investigate some of the core foundational concepts and values in the arts and humanities. CPC uses experimental writing, publishing and making to critically and creatively rethink the arts and humanities in the context of the digital, along with many of the concepts, ideas and values we have inherited with them. They include the virtuoso author, the real name, the signature, the book, originality, the fixed and finishable object, copyright, even the human itself. Hence our interest in the ‘posthumanities’ or ‘inhumanities’. In line with the theory-performance or practice-based ethos of our research, this has resulted in the CPC helping to build various post digital organisations, exhibitions, journals, presses and libraries, such as Living Books About Life, the Mandela27 DIY Exhibition, ScholarLed and the Radical Open Access Collective.

School of Arts and Creative Industries