Darryl Cressman (D.M.)

Key publications
Other publications

Monographs

  • Cressman, D. (2016) Building Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam: The Concertgebouw. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Edited Collections

  • Cressman, D. (ed.) The Necessity of Critique: Andrew Feenberg & the Philosophy of Technology. Springer Press (2022)

Journal Articles

  • Cressman, D. (2020). "Contingency & Potential: Reconsidering a Dialectical Philosophy of Technology." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 24 (1&2), pp.138-158.
  • Cressman, D. (2019). "Disruptive Innovation & the Idea of Technology." Novation: Critical  Studies of Innovation, 1, pp.17-39.
  • Cressman, D. (2016). “Cosmopolitanism & Negation: Hauke Brunkhorst’s Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions.” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 2, pp.1-7
  • Peters, P. & Cressman, D. (2016) “A Sounding Monument: How a New Organ Became Old.” The Journal of Sound Studies 2(1), pp.21-35.
  • Cressman, D. (2015). “Acoustic Architecture before Science: The Case of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.” SoundEffects: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound & Sound Experience, 15(1), pp.11-23.
  • Cressman, D. (2014). “On Fifty years of One-Dimensional Man and a Critical Philosophy of Technology.” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 2: 29-40.
  • Friesen, N. & Cressman, D. (2010).  “Media Theory, Education, & the University: A Response to Kittler’s History of the University as a Media System.” Canadian Journal of Media Studies, 7 (1).

Book Chapters

  • Cressman, D. (2022). "A Short Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology," in Swiestra, Lemmens, Sharon & Vermaas (eds.), The Technical Condition: The Entanglement of Technology, Culture, and Society. Amsterdam: Boom, pp.43-75 
  • Cressman, D. (2021). "Situating Disruptive Innovation as an Organizational Strategy & Technological Concept," in Godin, B. Handbook of Alternative Theories of Innovation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
  • Cressman, D. (2021). “Concertgebouw” and “Concertgebouworkest.” In Schröder, G. (ed.)Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag.
  • Cressman, D. (2018). “Actor-Network Theory.” In Ritzer, G. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Cressman, D. (2016). “Innis in the Concertgebouw: Media & Musical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam.” In Friesen, N (ed.) Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe. Dordecht: Springer Press, pp.131-151.
  • Friesen, N. & Cressman, D. (2014) “Kanadische Schule (Canadian School).” In Schröter, J. (ed.). Handbuch Medienwissenschaft (Handbook of Media Studies). Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, pp. 69-78.     
  • Cressman, D. & Hamilton, E. (2010). “The Experiential Dimension in Online Learning: Phenomenology, Technology and Breakdowns,” in Majkut, P. & Canán, A.J.L.  (eds.) Phenomenology & Media: An Anthology of Essays from Glimpse.  Bucharest: Zeta Books.
  • Friesen, N. & Cressman, D. (2006). “The Political Economy of Technical E-Learning Standards” In Koolhang, A. & Harman, K. (eds.), Learning Objects: Theory, Praxis, Issues & Trends. Warsaw: Informing Science Press: 507-526.

Book Reviews

  • "Technology, Modernity, Democracy," by Andrew Feenberg. Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, 2020, 36(4).
  • "Mp3: The Meaning of a Format,” by Jonathan Sterne. Canadian Journal of Communication, 2013, 38(2), pp.267-269.

Conference Proceedings

  • Cressman, D. & Hamilton, E. (2005).  “The Experiential Dimension of Online Learning: Phenomenology, Technology & Breakdowns.”  Glimpse: Proceedings of the Society for Phenomenology and Media Annual Conference 7: 9-23.

Reports

  • Cressman, D. (2009). A Brief Overview of Actor-Network Theory. A research report commissioned by the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST), School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/cprost/reports.html
  • Cressman, D., Holbrook, J. A., Lewis, B. S. & Wixted, B (2009). Capturing the Outcomes and Impacts of Publicly Funded Research. A survey of methods used for measuring the research networks commissioned by the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/cprost/?p=336

Selected Conference Presentations & Invited Talks

  • Simondon as a Critical Theorist of Technology, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon (November 2024)
  • Commodification and the Critique of Technology, University of Twente, NL (October 2024)
  • Contingency & Potential: Re-Considering Critical Theory after the Empirical Turn, Czech Academy of Science, Institute for Philosophy, Prague, CZ (May 2019).
  • The Concert Hall as a Boundary Object: 1888–2005, “The Lives of Sound Objects: Knowledge, Science, Heritage,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (September 2018).
  • Disruptive Innovation & the Idea of Technology. European Association for the Study of Science & Technology (EASST), Lancaster, UK (July 2018)
  • Critical Theory & the Materialities of Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture. Human-Technology Relations: Postphenomenology & the Philosophy of Technology, University of Twente (July 2018).
  • Disruption in the EU: Imaginaries of Disruptive Innovation and the Idea of Technology. STS Italia, University of Padova (June 2018)
  • Contingency & Potential: STS & Critical Theory in Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology. Society for Philosophy & Technology, TU Darmstadt (June 2017).
  • Disruptive Innovation: The History of an Idea. Society for the Social Studies of Science/European Association of Science & Technology Studies International Conference, Barcelona (August 2016) 
  • An Old Take on New Technology: Marx, Marcuse, and Accelerationist Politics, 9th International Critical Theory Conference, John Felice Center of Loyola University, Rome (May 2016)
  • Buildings for Music Before and After Science, First Annual European Sounds Studies Association (ESSA) Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin (October 2013)
  • Philosophy, Technology, and Listening to Music, Society for Philosophy & Technology, Technical University of Lisbon (June 2013). 
  • Acoustics Before and After Science: The Case of the Concert Hall, The German Society for the History of Technology, Dresden Technical University (May 2013)