Daniel Rubinstein

Associate professor
USN School of Business
Department of Business, Strategy and Political Sciences
Campus Kongsberg ()
Daniel Rubinstein’s work situates the visual image, post-phenomenology, new media and psychoanalysis as a practice led encounter with contemporary philosophy and art. His most recent works include: The Diogenes Compex, Sublime living in Irrational times and the essay collection Fotografie nach der Philosophie. His newest book, "How Photography Changed Philosophy" will be published by Routledge in 2022.

Publications

Published research

Single authored and edited Books

1.     Rubinstein D., Philosophy of Photography as the Sentient Image, 220 pages, Routledge 2022 (forthcoming)

2.     Rubinstein D., Philosophie nach der Fotografie, Merve Verlag 2020

3.     Rubinstein D., (ed.) Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age, Routledge 2019 ISBN 9781138493490

4.     Rubinstein D., Golding J. and Fisher A. (eds) On the Verge of Photography: Imaging Beyond Representation, ARTiclePress, 2013. ISBN 9781873352021

Book chapters

1.     Rubinstein D., The Diogenes complex: sublime living in irrational times in The Sublime in Everyday Life, eds. Anastasios Gaitanidis and Polona Curk, Routledge, 202. ISBN 9780367202972

2.     Rubinstein D., The New Paradigm, in Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age, ed. Daniel Rubinstein, Routledge, 2019. ISBN 113849349X

3.     Rubinstein D., Graven Images; Photography after Heidegger, Lyotard and Deleuze, in Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age, ed. Daniel Rubinstein, Routledge, 2019. ISBN 113849349X

4.     Rubinstein D. and Sluis K., Life More Photographic, Mapping the Networked Image, in The Photography Cultures Reader, ed. Liz Wels, Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780415749206

5.     Rubinstein D., Politics of Invisibility, in Routledge Companion to Photography Theory eds. Mark Durden and Jane Torney, Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138845770

6.     Rubinstein D., Photography after Philosophy, in The Handbook of Photography Studies, ed. Gil Pasternak, Bloomsbury Press, 2019. ISBN 9781474242219

7.     Rubinstein D., Posthuman Photography in The Evolution of the Image: Political Action and the Digital Self, eds. Marco Bohr and Basia Slivinska (Routledge, 2018). ISBN 9781138216037

8.     Rubinstein D., Post-Representational photography, and the Grin of Schrödinger’s Cat, in Photography Reframed, eds. Benedict Burbridge and Annabella Pollen, L. B. Tauris, 2018. ISBN 1784538833

9.     Rubinstein D., Keeping Up with the Cartesians: On the Culture of the Selfie with Continual Reference to Kim Kardashian, in Charlotte Cotton (ed), Public, private, secret: on photography and the configuration of self, Aperture 2018. ISBN 1597114383

10.  Rubinstein D., Gift of the Selfie, in Ego Update eds Sinaida Michalskaja and Shanin Zarinbal, NRW Forum, Duseldorf, 2019. ISBN 9783863358310

11.  Rubinstein D., How the ‘Real Word’ Finally Became an Image, in What is Photographic Research? eds. Anne Williams and Duncan Woodridge (Camberwell Publishing, 2018) pp. 47-51.

12.  Rubinstein D. and Sluis K., The Digital Image in Photographic Culture; The Algorithmic Image and the Crisis of Representation, In: The Photographic Image in Digital Culture 2nd edition ed. Martin Lister, London, Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415535298

Articles (peer reviewed)

1.     Rubinstein D., 2021, "Anti-Oedipus; Capitalism and Schizophrenia", European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 23(2)

2.     Rubinstein D., 2021, The Assassination of Experience by Photography, Philosophy of Photography 11(1-2), pp. 113-120.

3.     Rubinstein D., 2020, The body as data set, Philosophy of Photography, 10(2), pp. 110-115

4.     Rubinstein D., 2017, Failure to Engage; Art Criticism in the Age of Simulacra, Journal of Visual Culture, 16(1)

5.     Rubinstein D., 2016, Value of Nothing, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 15(2)

6.     Rubinstein D., 2017, What is Photography in the 21st Century? Philosophy of Photography, 7(1&2), , pp. 155-160.

7.     Rubinstein D., 2014, The Digital Image, Mafte’akh; Lexical Review of Political Thought, Minerva Humanities Centre, Tel Aviv University, 6(1), pp. 39-54.

8.     Rubinstein D., 2013, Discourse in a Coma; A Comment on a Comma in the Title of J-F Lyotard’s ‘Discourse, Figure, Zētēsis, 1(1), pp. 29-33.

9.     Rubinstein D. and Sluis K., 2013, Notes on the Margins of Metadata; concerning the undecidability of the digital image, Photographies, 7(1), pp. 151-158.

10.  Rubinstein D., 2010, On Tagging in the context of New Media, Philosophy of Photography, 1(2),
pp. 197-200.

11.  Rubinstein D., 2009, Digitally Yours; the Body in Contemporary Photography, Issues in contemporary culture and aesthetics, 2 (2&3), pp. 181-195.

12.  Rubinstein D., 2009, Towards photographic Education, Photographies , 2,(2), pp. 135-143.

13.  Rubinstein D. and Sluis K., 2008, A Life More Photographic; Mapping the Networked Image. Photographies 1,(1), pp. 9-29.

14.  Rubinstein D., The Body in Contemporary Photography, Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics 2(2), 2009 pp. 181-195.

15.  Rubinstein D., 2005, Camera-Phone Photography; Death of the Camera and the Arrival of Visual Speech. Issues in contemporary culture and aesthetics 2(1), pp. 113-118.

16.  Confino M. and Rubinstein D., 1992, Kropotkine Savant [Vingt-cinq letters inédites de Pierre Kropotkine à Marie Goldsmith, 27 Jullet 1901 – 9 Jullet 1915], Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique, 33(2), pp. 243-301.

Essays (not peer reviewed)

1.     The body as Dataset, Studio SOL, November 2019

2.     Technique of the Self; on the art of Cindy Sherman from Untitled Film Stills to Instagram, Revista ZUM Magazine, October 2018.

3.     The Assassination Of Experience By Photography, Bijutsu Techo International, 2016

4.     What is 21st Century Photography. Photographers’ Gallery blog, 2015

5.     GIF today, Photographers’ Gallery, 2012.