Dr Andrew Brooks

Dr Andrew Brooks

Lecturer
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of the Arts and Media

Andrew Brooks is Lecturer in Media Cultures in the School of Arts and Media, . His research proposes strategies for reading and listening to contemporary media events, systems, and infrastructures. His current research is organised around three main projects: the politics of noise and listening; infrastructural inequalities; and the politics of race and embodiment in media culture. 

Research interests include: critical race studies, media studies, cultural theory, decolonial theory, infrastructure, sound and listening, labour, gender and sexuality, visual culture, poetry and poetics.

An ongoing research collaboration with Dr Astrid Lorange interrogates the way that infrastructures of discipline and control – such as laws, fines, contracts, paperwork, prisons, and predictive systems – contribute to the naturalisation of settler colonialism. This project draws on a diverse range of examples found in media, art, and poetry to show how such logics of settler-colonialism can be revealed, critiqued, and resisted. He also writes on noise and interruption in relation to questions of power, race, sociality, and collectivity.

He is a founding member of the  research network. 

Andrew is a writer and artist whose work has been exhibited and published both locally and nationally. Along with Astrid Lorange, he is one half of the critical art collective . He is also a member of the publishing collective .

Andrew welcomes supervisions in any of the above areas.

  • Books | 2021
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2021, Homework, Discipline
    Books | 2021
    Brooks A, 2021, Inferno
  • Book Chapters | 2020
    Brooks A, 2020, 'Myth-making in the Settler Colony: On Laziness, Representation and Refusal', in Attwood D; Russell F (ed.), Art of Laziness: Contemporary Art and Anti-Work Politics, Art + Australia, Melbourne, pp. 39 - 62,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Brooks A, 2019, 'Cracks in the Archive', in Goodwin C (ed.), Permanent Recession: A Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance, Onomatopee, Unicum, pp. 179 - 188
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2024, '“Extraordinary powers for extraordinary times”: A conjunctural analysis of pandemic policing, common sense, and the abolitionist horizon', Crime, Media, Culture, 20, pp. 312 - 332,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2022, 'Torrens Title: property, race and (infra)structures of feeling in the settler colony', Race and Class, 64, pp. 63 - 83,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Brooks A, 2022, 'Always Incomplete: A Mixtape after Moten and Harney', Sydney Review of Books,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Brooks A, 2022, 'Anticipation, abolition, possibility: on riots, networked communication, and listening', Cultural Studies, pp. 1 - 25,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Brooks A, 2022, 'THE WHITE ALBUM : on racialized violence and the witnessing of the witness', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 27, pp. 72 - 84,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Lorange A; Brooks A, 2022, 'Endless Study, Infinite Debt: On study inside and outside the university classroom', Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, 10,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Brooks A; Lorange A; Grealy L, 2021, 'Everything Must Change', Infrastructural Inequalities Journal,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2021, 'There’s a riot goin’ on', Continuum, 35, pp. 123 - 136,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Brooks A; Richardson M, 2021, 'On Witnessing a Riot', Lateral,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2020, '22nd Biennale of Sydney, “Nirin”', Art Agenda,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Brooks A, 2020, 'Between Nothingness and Infinity', Art + Australia, pp. 118 - 127,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Brooks A, 2020, 'Listening beyond the border: Self-representation, witnessing, and the white sonic field', Law Text Culture, 24,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Navin Brooks A; Brooks A, 2020, 'Fugitive Listening: Sounds from the Undercommons', Theory, Culture and Society, 37, pp. 25 - 45,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks A; Lorange A; Grealy L; Lea T; Cornell C, 2019, 'Tending a Social Infrastructure', Infrastructural Inequalities Journal,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2019, 'Rifles or Ruffles', The Lifted Brow, 44, pp. 79 - 84,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2019, 'no trouble here: : On Sally M. Nangala Mulda’s “Town Camp Anywhere”', Running Dog,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks A; Melick T, 2019, 'The New Learning Centre', Art + Australia,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks A, 2019, 'Listening to the indefinite', Runway Journal, 39,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Brooks A, 2019, 'The Murmur of the Crowd', Journal of Sonic Studies, 18,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lorange A; Brooks A, 2017, 'Gossip and its Minor Discourses', Discipline, 4.5, pp. 35 - 50
    Journal articles | 2017
    Lorange A; Brooks A, 2017, 'Review: The National: New Australian Work', Art and Australia,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Brooks A, 2015, 'Glitch/Failure: Constructing a Queer Politics of Listening', Leonardo Music Journal, 25, pp. 37 - 40,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Brooks A; Tan K, 2014, 'Notes on Translation', dasSUPERPAPER, 33, pp. 46 - 49
  • Creative Works (non-textual) | 2022
    Lorange A; Brooks A, 2022, These Thoughts Large and Public, Take Hold of the Clouds, Victorian Trades Hall, 30 July 2022 - 31 July 2022, medium: Installation art, at: https://www.takeholdoftheclouds.com/
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Brooks A; Bandesh F; Rahmati F, 2021, I Call it a Prison Because it is a Prison,
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Brooks A; Lorange A; Lean T; Kilroy D, 2021, Abolition is a Verb,
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2021, Cyprien Gaillard, Julia Stoschek Collection
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2021
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2021, Ghosts, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney, Published: 09 August 2021, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works,
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Brooks A, 2021, Five Propositions on Listening and Breath, Intermission: Reflection on a Year of Upheaval, Plysa G; Schulz M; Gulik M, (eds.), Unsound
    Creative Written Works | 2021
    Brooks A, 2021, Race Still Matters, Menzies-Pike C, (ed.), Sydney Review of Books,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2021
    Lorange A; Brooks A, 2021, Supply Chain, Supply Chain, Bus Projects, 22 June 2021 - 17 July 2021, at: https://busprojects.org.au/program/snack-syndicate
    Curatorial Outputs | 2020
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2020, Endless Study, Infinite Debt: Protocols for listening in (and after) social isolation, exhibited at: Online - Liquid Architecture, 26 May 2020 - 14 June 2020,
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Brooks A; Melick T, 2020, University.xlsx, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney Review of Books,
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Brooks A, 2020, Songs of Noise and Opacity: Toward a Sonic Politics of Solidarity, The Contemporary Journal, Nottingham Contemporary,
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Brooks A, 2020, The Island: Part 1 and 2, Running Dog, Running Dog,
    Creative Written Works | 2020
    Brooks A, 2020, Wayward Revolutions, The Sydney Review of Books, The Sydney Review of Books,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Brooks A; Lorange A; Cross D, 2019, ‘We All Live in Colonised Time’: An Interview with Dean Cross,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Brooks A; Lorange A; Smith J, 2019, ‘The Comfort Zone’s the Enemy of the Spirit, Jack!’: An Interview with Uncle Jimmy Smith,
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Brooks A, 2019, Hell Pup, Panda's Friend, Brown B, (ed.)
    Creative Written Works | 2019
    Brooks A, 2019, Uncertain Accumulations, The Lifted Brow, Wolfers J; Maxwell J, (ed.), The Lifted Brow
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2019
    Lorange A; Brooks A, 2019, Endless Study, Infinite Debt: Occasional Gifts, Shapeshifters: New Forms of Curatorial Research, Monash Art, Design & Architecture Gallery, 13 March 2019 - 14 March 2019, at: https://www.monash.edu/mada/events/shapeshifters
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2018, Autumn/Winter
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2018, Warm Ties, Running Dog,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2018
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2018, Camel Coat, Camel Coat, Firstdraft, 02 May 2018 - 25 May 2018, at: https://snacksyndicate.net/camel-coat/
    Creative Written Works | 2018
    Brooks A, 2018, Snowden Sweater, SOd press,
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2017
    Lorange A; Brooks AN, 2017, Cold Cuts, Cold Cuts, Alaska Projects, 04 August 2017 - 26 August 2017, at: https://snacksyndicate.net/cold-cuts/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2016
    Lorange A; Brooks AN, 2016, Little Pharma, Little Pharma, Artspace, Sydney, 12 May 2016 - 23 May 2016, at: https://www.artspace.org.au/program/ideas-platform/2016/snack-syndicate-little-pharma/
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Brooks A; Lorange A, 2015, Revenge Body, Capitalist Surrealism, National Gallery of Victoria, 24 September 2015 - 24 September 2015, at: https://snacksyndicate.net/revenge-body/

My Teaching

Andrew currently runs the undergraduate course Working with Data (ARTS1092).