Leandros Kyriakopoulos

Research interests

• Electronic Dance Music, Club Cultures, Consumption, Music and Sound, Creative Industries.
• Spectacle and Image, Techno-aesthetics, Audiovisual Media, Communication, Digital Media, Social Networking.
• Urban Nomadism, Contemporary Forms of Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, Politics of Place.
• Body and Senses, Memory and Emotions, Art and Representation, Identity and Subjectivity.
• Polytope Methods, Polyversal Social Research, Digital Ethnography, Non-Representational Methodologies.

Participation in Surveys

• November 2022–present

Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound and the Ethics of Listening (MUTE)- ERC CoG (European Research Council - Consolidator Grant). Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation. Principal Investigator: Anna Papaeti

• 2020- 2022

Public Recognition and Social Networking in the Electronic Dance Music Scene of Athens– Department of Music Studies, NKUA, (postdoctoral research, State Scholarships Foundation).

• 2019- 2020

Partnership for the Development of Innovative Applications for the Revival - Representation and Dissemination of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Culture Through Speech-Image-Augmented Reality Technologies– ELDEL (Research-Create-Innovate Program). Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA), University of Thessaly. Principal Investigator: Evangelos Avdikos

• 2015- 2016

Performing Euphoric Cosmopolitanism: Aesthetics of Life and Public Space in Psytrance Phantasmagoria– Center for Research in the Humanities (postdoctoral research).

• 2013- 2015

Designing the Volos City Museum: Historical research and development of innovative interactive environments for the dissemination of scientific knowledge DEMUCIV (Thales Project). Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. Principal Investigator: Ioanna Laliotou

Participation in workshops

• Digital Studies Lab

Thesis supervision

• Dimitra Paraschou, Electronic Music, Tech Communities, and Emotional Identities in Athens
• Thanos Theodoridis, Care Algorithms and Emotional Capitalism in Neoliberal Technoculture: A Qualitative Study of Digital Wellness Platforms

Books

• Phantasmagoria of the Uncanny: Nomadism, Technique, and Aesthetics in the Psychedelic Rave, New York & London: Lexington Books, 2024.
• Representations of the Uncanny: Nomadism and Aesthetics in the Rave Psychedelic Scene, Athens: Nisos, 2020.

Editing of Collective Volumes and Themed Issues

• Spaces from Sound – Times of Technics: Intersections between Technology, Networks, Music, and the Body, Automat: Digital Media and Culture Magazine 1(2), 2022.
• Digitality – Aestheticization – Emotion Autonomy, Utopia Vol. 133, July-September, 2020.

Articles in scientific journals

• “Radio, Deception Warfare, and Mediated Listening, Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 24, 2026.
• “Dangerous Listening: Warfare, Technology, and the Spectrum of Audibility, Witnessing 2025, Available at: https://doi.org/10.26238/witnessing.2025.01.07
• “Value wars (in the information age), Contemporary Issues 162-163, 2024, pp. 110-115.
• “Liminality re-realized in the psychedelic rave, Anthropology and Humanism, 46(2), 2021, pp. 226-243.
• “Viral economies, Local vol. 19, 2020, pp. 89-98.
• “In the Mirrors of the Past: Rereading the History of Volos in the Years of Crisis, The Histories vol. 70, 2019, pp. 209-240.
• “Performing euphoric cosmopolitanism: The aesthetics of life and public space in psytrance phantasmagoria, Journal of Greek Media and Culture 5(1), April 2019, pp. 69-91.

Book chapters in edited volumes

• “Negative Realism (an epistemology for the Anthropocene)”, in M. Patiniotis & G. Sagriotis (eds.), Double Bridge: Crossing Borders in the Realm of Arts and Culture, Athens: Antipodes, 2025, pp. 35-56
• “On the network culture of electronic dance music”, in Milonas and E. Psillakou (eds.), Class Cultures and the Media in Greece, Vol. 2. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, pp. 207-229.
• “«Berlin is the new Athens»: Modernism and Recognition in the Electronic Dance Music Scene in Crisis-Era Athens,” in A. Theodosiou and E. Kallimopoulou (eds.), Musical Communities in 21st-Century Greece: Ethnographic Glances and Auditions, Athens: Pedio, 2020, pp. 433-459.
• “«Welcome to paradise»: Building the Psytrance scene”, in A. Theodosiou and E. Papadaki (eds.), Technoculture and Cultural Industries, Athens: Nisos Publications, 2018, pp. 221-241.

Winter semester courses

• Introduction to Social Theory
• Sociology of the Internet

Spring semester courses

• Sociology of Technoculture
• Technologies and Politics of Representation

Courses in the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme Philosophy and Sociology of Arts and Culture

• Aesthetics – Media – Representation

Administrative work

• Member of the Internal Evaluation Group (IEG)
• Erasmus Coordinator
• Member of the Evaluation Committee for Doctoral Candidates and Postdoctoral Research
• Associate Academic Advisor for Academic Affairs
• Deputy Supervisor for the building at 14 Agiou Konstantinou Street