danielle.l.kirby@gmail.com
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Publications

Books        

Fantasy and Belief
Kirby, D. Fantasy and Belief: Exploring the relationship between fiction, media and alternative religion London & New York: Routledge, 2014

Edited books        

Religion and Media
Kirby, D., and Cusack, C. (eds.) Religion and Media. 4 volumes. New York: Routledge, 2017

Sects, Cults, and New Religions
Cusack, C., and Kirby, D. (eds.) Sects, Cults, and New Religions. 4 volumes. New York: Routledge, 2014

Journal articles    

Between Synchromysticism and Paganism
Kirby, D. “Between Synchromysticism and Paganism: Tracing some metaphysical uses of popular fictions” Culture and Religion vol. 13, no. 4. 2013. Pp 396 – 410 * Reprinted in The Problem of Invented Religions Sutcliffe & Cusack (eds.) New York: Routledge, 2016

Readers, Believers, Consumers, and Audiences
Kirby, D. “Readers, Believers, Consumers, and Audiences: complicating the relationship between consumption and contemporary narrative spiritualities” Australian Journal of Communication vol. 39, no. 1. 2012. Pp 121-133

Transgressive Representations
Kirby, D. “Transgressive Representations: Satanic Ritual Abuse, Thee Temple of Psychick Youth, and First Transmission” Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 21, no. 2. 2011. Pp 134-149
* Reprinted in Religion and Media. Kirby & Cusack (eds.) New York: Routledge, 2017

Book chapters    

Kopimism and Media Devotion
Kirby, D., and Mcintyre, E., “Kopimism and Media Devotion: piracy, activism, art, and critique as religious practice” Fiction, Invention, and Hyper-Reality: From Popular Culture to Religion (Cusack, C. And Kosnáč, P., eds.) New York: Routledge, 2017

Occultural Bricolage and Popular Culture
Kirby, D. “Occultural Bricolage and Popular Culture: Remix and Art in the Church of the subgenius, the Temple of Psychic Youth, and Discordianism” The Handbook of Hyperreal Religions ed. Possamai. Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2011

Pulp Fiction and the Revealed Text
Kirby, D. “Pulp Fiction and the Revealed Text: a study of the role of the text in the Otherkin Community” Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age ed. Deacy & Arweck. England: Ashgate, 2009
*Reprinted in Sects, Cults, and New Religions. Vol. 3. Routledge, 2014

Alternative Worlds
Kirby, D. “Alternative Worlds: metaphysical questing and virtual community amongst the Otherkin” Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred ed. Frances Di Lauro Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006
*Reprinted and updated for The Handbook of Hyperreal Religions ed. Possamai. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011

Digital Mediations
Kirby, D. “Digital Mediations: Theory and Method, Identity and Community, and Social Media” in Religion and Media (eds. Cusack and Kirby), vol. 2. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp 1-6

Ephemeral Mediations
Kirby, D. “Ephemeral Mediations: Performance, Aesthetic Experience, Ritual, and Pilgrimage” in Religion and Media (eds. Cusack and Kirby), vol. 4. New York: Routledge 2017. Pp 1-6

Religion and Media
Kirby, D. & Cusack, C. Religion and Media: An Introduction (eds. Cusack and Kirby), vol. 1. New York: Routledge 2017. Pp. 1-11

Theoretical Models, Charisma and Millenarianism, and Sacred Narratives
Kirby, D. “Theoretical Models, Charisma and Millenarianism, and Sacred Narratives” in Sects, Cults, and New Religions (eds. Cusack and Kirby), vol. 1. Routledge: New York, 2014. Pp 12-17

Academy, Modernity, Society, and Culture
Kirby, D. “Academy, Modernity, Society, and Culture” in Sects, Cults, and New Religions (eds. Cusack and Kirby), vol. 3. Routledge: New York, 2014. Pp 1-7

Sects, Cults, and New Religious Movements: An Introduction
Cusack, C., & Kirby, D., Sects, Cults, and New Religious Movements: An Introduction” in Sects, Cults, and New Religions (eds. Cusack and Kirby), vol. 1. Routledge: New York, 2014. Pp 1-11

Other writing      

Croning  
“Croning: witch figures, happy hags, and the symbolic geography of power” Commissioned companion essay for Sally Rees’s exhibition Crone, MONA (In process, but publication postponed, COVID-19)

Instrumental Logic and the Science of the Occult
“Instrumental Logic and the Science of the Occult”
Catalogue Essay for 'La morte mi troverà vivo', A Sound Installation by Mat Ward (24 Jan - 23 Feb 2020, Contemporary Art Tasmania).

Thee Temple of Psychick Youth
“Thee Temple of Psychick Youth”
Profile for the World Religions and Spiritualities Project
Directed by Professor David Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University www.wrldrels.org
January 2019

Selected Music Projects*   
Endurance performance (vocals) with Mat Ward and Dylan Banks (intonarumoris), responding to 'La morte mi troverà vivo', A Sound Installation by Mat Ward (24 Jan - 23 Feb 2020, Contemporary Art Tasmania).

Joy as a Threat Album and Performance with Mat Ward, recorded live at MONA and Launched at ProofSpace September 2019

The Unforgetting of Mary K” Percy Grainger Museum, Melbourne Music Week Rescoring, adaption, and performance project, 2018

Kirby/Ward The Last Bastion Dark MOFO 2017

Studies in Attrition, Encyclical – solo composition and recording project, commissioned for mircobroadcasting project for Tricky Walsh, 2018

Live performance of original soundtrack for Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera, MOFO 2017, with Mat Ward, Dylan Banks, and Matt Warren

Solo performances at MONA, 2015 – cont.
   
Kirby/Ward duo, numerous performances 2014 – cont. Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane.

Encyclical album, processed piano The Mirrored City, 2012

Soundtracks for theatre and film with Lloyd Barrett, 2006 – 2012.

Music Workshops for Richmond Community Centre, 2007-2008

Numerous bands, numerous festivals, numerous gigs
2001 – cont. (eg. This Is Not Art, Straight Out Of Brisbane)


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