Hello, and welcome to my homepage -- a CV and occasional blog. Thanks for dropping by.
My research focuses on the conceptual histories of self-regulating systems, specifically those of early-cybernetics, with a focus on the theoretical implications for power and control.
Currently, I am a Research Fellow at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies (LIAS) where I am working on the project, Kybernetes, or escaping seas and weaving snares in ancient Greek cybernetics (2023-2024).
My academic education has been in philosophy, with a BA Philosophy from the University of Sussex and an MA in Modern European Philosophy and a PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University. My supervisor for both my MA dissertation and PhD thesis was Howard Caygill.
I am a member of the editorial collective of the magazine Radical Philosophy
Outside of academia I enjoy writing about and in code, especially in Emacs Lisp, LaTeX and Python (Gitlab, GitHub).
If you're a friend who'd like to borrow my books, have a search or browse through the catalogue and get in touch. Bear in mind that while some of my books are with me in Leuphana, some are in storage in London. Check the 'Collection' to locate them.
Publications and academic writing
- Daniel Nemenyi, 'Robot Makes Free: The Leibnizian cryptowar of Norbert Wiener', Radical Philosophy 2.14, Spring 2023, 3–20. (Radical Philosophy)
- Daniel Nemenyi, 'How we never became posthuman: Homeostasis as conflict from Claude Bernard to Norbert Wiener', Distributed Perception, ed. Natasha Lushetich and Iain Campbell (London: Routledge, 2021), 160-173. (Taylor & Francis, British Library)
- Daniel Nemenyi, 'Position paper', Terra Critica, (July 2019). A reading of Alexandre Koyré's 'The Political Function of the Modern Lie' together with Stuart Hall's 'The Meaning of New Times'. (read)
- Daniel Nemenyi, What is an internet? Norbert Wiener and the society of control February 2019 PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Howard Caygill at CRMEP, Kingston University. (British Library, Kingston University)
- Daniel Nemenyi, Submarine State: On secrets and leaks, Radical Philosophy, 193 (Sept/Oct 2015), 2-8. (Radical Philosophy)
- Daniel Nemenyi, 'Rose-tinted lens', Radical Philosophy, 186 (Jul/Aug 2014). Review of Hannah Arendt, dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 60-63. (Radical Philosophy)
- Daniel Nemenyi, The Remnant: A politico-Theological Critique (2012). MA dissertation supervised by Prof. Howard Caygill at CRMEP, Kingston University.
Academic appointments
- 2023-2024 >> Research Fellow, Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies
- 2022-2023 >> Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Philosophy: The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts, La toupie folle [The Mad Spinning Top]: The Pragmatic Genealogy of Concepts, King's College London. Built a custom Zettelkasten website tool.
- 2022 >> Lecturer in Ethics, University of Greenwich
- 2022-2023 >> Tutor in Philosophy at the Mary Ward Centre, London
- 2019-2021 >> Lecturer in Big Data Methodologies and Technologies Education at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.
- 2014-2019 >> Techne AHRC funded PhD in Philosophy to work on my project, 'What is the Internet? An Ontological Investigation', Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. The final title was, 'What is an internet? Norbert Wiener and the society of control'.
Projects
- Radical Philosophy, member of Editorial Collective.
- Okey_Kompyuter. Yiddish tech.
Blog posts
- An effort, often painful Writing beyond procrastination
- Digging their own graves? HS2 Rebellion and the 'mad risk' of tunnel activism
- Hello world! Launching my blog
Some public talks
- Daniel Nemenyi, Activating the Possibles: The Humanities and the Task of Social Potentialisation, Leuphana University, 6 June 2023. (Listen, starts at 15:00)
- Daniel Nemenyi, 'Splinternet and globalisation: Two early models of internet opposed', 4S Annual Meeting (167. Splinternets), University of Toronto / Online, 6 October 2021. (info)
- Daniel Nemenyi, 'The Conflicting Determinations of Norbert Weiner and Leibniz', Indeterminate Futures / The Future of Indeterminacy, University of Dundee, 13 November 2020. (Watch) (info)