Three years later he moved south to England for a PhD in philosophy at the University of Warwick. In this period, Goodman’s musical tastes evolved towards dance music; in particular, jungle, a frenetic rave-born sound featuring sped-up breakbeats, samples, and bass. “Hearing jungle was about hearing those tracks [I'd been DJing] in the samples,” he recalls today.
It was during Goodman’s time at Warwick that he first intertwined his two interests. He became involved with Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), a short-lived interdisciplinary project that had a long-lasting impact on his career. Inspired by a talk from cultural theorist Kodwo Eshun and the writings of English philosopher Nick Land, the latter of whom co-founded CCRU with Sadie Plant, Goodman came to see how the intensity of new musical forms like jungle required new language and concepts. In other words, music could spawn theory; it could be about thinking and not just listening. By mixing rave culture with elements of afrofuturism, postmodernism, and cybernetics, he began to fashion a potent personal philosophy. After completing his PhD, Goodman moved to London in 1997 and started his academic career as a teaching assistant before becoming a lecturer.