New research publications

Over the last few months, I have been working on a number of PhD research publications that I wanted to share here. I hope you will enjoy them and find them useful.

First, a new summary of my dissertation plan, which I prepared for a three day workshop in action inquiry. It can be found here: http://www.milesahead.eu/publications/dissertationproposalsummary

Second, a paper for a course with Dottie Agger-Gupta, that builds on an earlier idea posted here, the Miles Davis test. The paper is called 'Beyond Turing: using organizational improvisation to explore human-machine interaction'. It takes us beyond the simple either-or debate of the Turing test, and uses the case study of Pat Metheney's Orchestrion to muse about improvisation between man and computer. See: http://www.milesahead.eu/publications/informationsystemsbeyondturingusingorganizationalimprovisationtoexplorehumanmachineinteraction

Third, a paper I made for a course on Love and Death in Modern Western Music Drama. In this course, which was created by Fielding's house philosopher Jeremy Shapiro, we are watching five great operas and one music drama (Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea, Bach's St-Matthews Passion, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Strauss' Salome, and Berg's Wozzeck), and around each work we listen to podcasts by Jeremy, and we read relevant philosophy, biography, musicology, sociology, and history to think about the themes of love and death. With a small group of fellow students, we engage in conversations about the topics, and for each opera, we author a short paper. Obviously, I use the opportunity to learn about this form of art, which was unknown to me, and I try to merge it with my knowledge of jazz and business. The first paper is called 'Musings on Monteverdi and Nietzsche: A fusion of opera and jazz? See: http://www.milesahead.eu/publications/musingsonmonteverdiandnietzscheafusionofoperaandjazz

Fourth, a brief paper that summarizes my systems perspective as a result of a nine week overview course on the subject with a group of fellow students and David Willis. See: http://www.milesahead.eu/publications/anoverviewofsystemssocietyculturecommunity

Finally, I created this visual overview presentation for a workshop with my research supporters. It summarizes some of the findings from the first few years of the research, and looks ahead at the dissertatoin phase. Use adobe's zoom function to navigate and read the details. See: http://www.milesahead.eu/publications/visualresearchupdateforsupporters