Stephen Barber is a professor at

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and a writer on urban culture, experiment in film and Japanese culture.Interview with 3:AM Magazine
/ref> Barber has been a professor at Kingston University since 2002, and is currently a Research Professor in the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture. He has previously worked at such institutions as the

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, and

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. He has a PhD from the

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, and has lived in

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and

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. He has also collaborated with prominent digital artists, photographers and poets, such as

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and

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. Barber has been writing since 1990 and has published twenty books (sixteen non-fiction books and four novels), many of them translated into other languages. He has published a number of books with defunct Creation Books. He is also a frequent contributor to journals, especially '' 3:AM Magazine'', ''Vertigo'' and ''

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''. He has received many awards and prizes for his books, from bodies such as the

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(Bellagio Program),

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, DAAD,

Japan Foundation The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry o ...

and Henkel Foundation, He is currently engaged in a research project on the scrapbooks of the moving-image pioneer

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, funded by a

Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ...

fellowship.

Bibliography

* ''Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs'' (1993) * ''Fragments of the European City'' (1995) * ''Weapons of Liberation'' (1996) * ''Artaud: The Screaming Body'' (1999) * ''Edmund White: The Burning World'' (1999) * ''Caligula: Divine Carnage (2001) * ''Extreme Europe'' (2001) * ''Projected Cities'' (2002) * ''Annihilation Zones: Far East Atrocities of the 20th Century'' (2002) * ''Genet: Pages Torn from the Book of Jean Genet'' (2004) * ''The Art of Destruction: the Films of the Vienna Action Group'' (2004) * ''The Vanishing Map'' (2006) * ''Hijikata: Revolt of the Body'' (2006) * ''The Tokyo Trilogy'' (2008) * ''Artaud: Terminal Curses: The Notebooks'' (2008) * ''Cities of Oblivion'' (2009) * ''Abandoned Images: Film and Film's End'' (2010) * ''England's Darkness'' (2013) * ''Berlin Bodies'' (2017) * ''White Noise Ballrooms'' (2018)

References

External links

Kingston University page

Interview with
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