Ryder, Paul
University of New South Wales
Australia
Paul Ryder is a commercial strategist and Lecturer in Media at the University of New South Wales where he teaches commercial, advertising, and communication strategy. He is interested in how deep-seated principles of military strategy manifest in response to a range of contemporary problems and, as a (quite serious) hobbies, likes to write about war and cinema and cars in literature. Together with Dan Binns, he wrote The Semiotics of Strategy: A Preliminary Structurlist Assessment of the Battle-Map in Patton (1970) and Midway (1976). The paper was published in M/C Journal (2017)
Contributions
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ArticlesIn light of an ongoing debate over the authorship of the Redfern address (was it then Prime Minister Paul Keating or his speechwriter, Don Watson, who was responsible for this historic piece?), the authors of this article consider notions of ownership, authorship, and acknowledgement as they relate to the crafting, delivery, and reception of historical political speeches. There is focus,...Read more
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ArticlesThe general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought. — Sun TzuWorld War II saw a proliferation of maps. From command posts to the pages of National Geographic to the pages of daily newspapers, they were everywhere (Schulten). The era also saw substantive developments in cartography, especially with respect to the...Read more
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ArticlesIn my article, "A New Sound; a New Sensation: A Cultural and Literary Reconsideration of the Motorcar in Modernity" (Ryder), I propose that "a range of semiotic engines" may be mobilised "to argue that, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, the motorcar is received as relatum profundis of freedom". In that 2019 article I...Read more
