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Dr Richard Hudson-Miles

Senior Lecturer

Richard Hudson-Miles is a Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies. He also writes design criticism for publications such as ASBO magazine, The Conversation, and Vestoj.

He is currently the director of the SYNTHESIS: DIGITAL FASHION RESEARCH NETWORK.

Richard's teaching covers the history and theory of design. His research operates at the intersections of digital cyberculture, the history of art and design, radical social theory, and the sociology of education. He is also a specialist in the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and will shortly be publishing an introduction to his work for Routledge. In addition, he is interested in the relation of art and design to neoliberalism, particularly in terms of education, social justice, class politics, decolonisation, ecology, and sustainability.

Current Teaching

Dr. Hudson-Miles currently teaches fashion history, fashion theory, and fashion writing on the following degrees:

BA (Hons) Fashion Design
BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing
MA Fashion

Research Interests

Dr. Hudson-Miles will happily receive applications from prospective doctoral students interested in working within any of the research themes of the SYNTHESIS - Digital Fashion Research Network [Decentralsiation, Technoculture, Transdisciplinarity, and Practice-Based Research with VR/XR/AR technologies].

He will also consider inquiries from the media, researchers, or prospectve doctoral students relating to the following areas:

Fashion Theory: Any aspect of fashion theory from Simmel onwards. Also welcomed are research projects related to subcultural fashion, oppositional dress, style as bricolage, streetstyle, slow fashion, commodity fetishism, symbolic exchange, Rancière and fashion, Baudrillard and fashion, posthumanism, the Gaze, decolonisation, or the interrelations of youth music, subcultural style, and politics
The philosophy of Jacques Rancière: Any aspect of Rancière's thought, especially the relationship of key concepts like politics, police, dissensus, disagreement, wrong, aisthesis, explication, or the poor, to art, design, and visual communication
Radical Social Theory: Any projects connecting revolutionary thought to art and design, especially Marxism, Post-Marxism, Post-colonialism, Anarchism, Feminism, Queer Theory
The Educational Turn in Contemporary Art: Joseph Beuys, Art & Language, Arte Útil, Tania Bruguera, Manifesta 6, or any alternative art schools
Critical Pedagogy and the Sociology of Education: Any projects relating to Rancière's concept of explication, Althusser's work on the ISA, and Harney and Moten's conception of the undercommons. Proposals for projects on the history of UK art schools are especially welcomed

Membership of professional associations and societies:

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Member of the Design History Society
Member of the National Association of Fine Art Educators (NAFAE)

Leeds School of Arts

Ask Me About

Art
Design
Education
Politics
Sociology

Selected Outputs

Hudson-Miles R (In press) Experiments in Autonomous Art Education in the UK, 2010-Present. Educacao and Realidade, 46 (4), pp. 1-34.

https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-6236118205
Hudson-Miles R (In press) Review: Andrew Hemingway ‘Landscape Between Ideology and the Aesthetic’. Marxism and Philosophy

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17044_landscape-between-ideology-and-the-aesthetic-marxist-essays-on-british-art-and-art-theory-1750-1850-by-andrew-hemingway-reviewed-by-richard-hudson-miles/
Hudson-Miles R; Broadey A (2022) Scenes from the history of the art school. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 21 (4), pp. 311-336.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2022.2122240
Hudson-Miles R (2022) Avant-Garde As Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930, Anna Bokov (2020). International Journal of Education Through Art, 18 (1), pp. 123-125.

https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00087_5
Goodman J; Hudson‐Miles R; Jones J (2021) What Artists Want, What Artists Need: A Critical History of the Feral Art School, Hull, UK 2018 – Present. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 41 (1), pp. 1-12.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12376
Hudson-Miles R (2020) Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art and Design Education, Lee Campbell (2020) (ed.). International Journal of Education Through Art, 16 (3), pp. 462-464.

https://doi.org/10.1386/eta_00045_5
Hudson-Miles R (2020) Is it Simple to Be a Marxist in Pedagogy?. Pedagogy Culture and Society, 29 (4), pp. 669-676.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2020.1766903
Hudson-Miles R; Broadey A (2019) Towards a Schizoanalysis of the Contemporary University. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 8 (12), pp. 60-65.

https://social-epistemology.com/2019/12/23/towards-a-schizoanalysis-of-the-contemporary-university-andy-broadey-and-richard-hudson-miles/
Hudson-Miles R; Broadey A (2019) ‘Messy Democracy’: Democratic pedagogy and its discontents. Research in Education, 104 (1),

https://doi.org/10.1177/0034523719842296
Hudson-Miles R (2017) The Politics of Interdisciplinarity: An Interview with Experimental Jetset. Iterations, (5), pp. 34-37.

https://www.academia.edu/34201142/Hudson_Miles_R_2017_The_Politics_of_Interdisciplinarity_An_Interview_with_Experimental_Jetset_Iterations_No_5_pp_34_7
Hudson-Miles R (2016) Illustration, Education, Revolution: Lessons from Rancière for the C21st Illustration Student. VaroomLab, (4), pp. 25-39.

https://theaoi.com/resources/research-and-insights/varoomlab-4-visionaries/
Hudson-Miles R (2016) Indisciplinarity as Social Form: Challenging the Distribution of the Sensible in the Visual Arts. Message, 3 pp. 34-55.

http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5117
Hudson-Miles R (2015) Benjamin, Googlization, and the Withered Typographic Auratic. Message

Hudson-Miles R (2023) Elevate The Human Race, Putting Makeup On My Face: ikon-1 and the Technological Sublime, Vestoj, Oct 2023.
Hudson-Miles R (2023) Jamie Reid: the defiant punk art of the man behind the Sex Pistols’ iconic imagery, The Conversation 15 August.
Hudson-Miles R (2023) Angels & Ecstasy: The Story of the New York City Club Kids, ASBO Magazine # 14 Apr.
Hudson-Miles R (2023) Black Honey interview, ASBO Magazine # 14 Apr.
Hudson-Miles R (2023) Swerving: StudioWyzz and the Evolution of the UK Drill Scene, ASBO Magazine # 14 Apr.
Hudson-Miles R (2023) Disco 2020: Club Kids Today, ASBO Magazine # 14 Apr.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) Are You Made of Stone?: Stone interview, ASBO Magazine # 13 Nov.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) ASBO Digital Fashion Round-Up, ASBO Magazine # 13 Nov.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Feminist Pop Icons from Madonna to Girli’, ASBO Magazine # 13 Nov.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) WARGASM vs THE FUKSTARS, ASBO Magazine # 12 Aug.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) ENTER SHIKARI - The Void Stares Back, ASBO Magazine # 12 Aug.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) The Flowers in Your Dustbin: A Quick History of UK Punk Style, ASBO Magazine # 12 Aug.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) New V&A Menswear Exhibition: Fashion Has Always Been At The Heart Of Gender Politics, The Conversation.

Hudson-Miles R (2022) The Pedagogy of the Pedagogical Turn. In: Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 117-131.
Hudson-Miles R (2022) ‘“Let us Build a City and a Tower”: Figures of the University in Gregor Reisch’s (1503) Margarita Philosophica’. In: Cruickshank J; Abbinett R ed. The Social Production of Knowledge in a Neoliberal Age Debating the Challenges Facing Higher Education. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield,
Hudson-Miles R; Andrew B (2021) What is a Work of Art?. In: Introduction to Philosophy Aesthetic Theory and Practice. Rebus,
Hudson-Miles R; Broadey A (2020) Messy Democracy: The Art School as War Machine. In: Coutts G; Eça T ed. Learning Through Art: International Perspectives. Viseu: InSEA Publications,
Hudson-Miles R; Broadey A; de Rosen F (2020) Disease / Control. In: Pandemic and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Rethinking Marxism Dossier. Brighton, Mass: Re:Marx,