• CfP Symposium Dis/Connection: Conflicts, Activism and Reciprocity Online and Beyond, Sept 27-28, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Some brief thoughts on chronopolitics

• Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

• The Mediatization of Time

• The Digital Monad

• Conduits for variety

• The lost lure of abundance

• The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

• The meaning of @realdonaldtrump

• Digital media and ontological security 

• Time-packing and space-packing

• What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

• How can Arendt and Heidegger help us think about distraction?

• What is compound distraction?

• Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for collective action

• The cultural significance of blogging

• Speculative thoughts about the phenomenology of digitalisation

• The Political Economy of Attention

• Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

• Quit social media

• The Joys of Weak Ties

• The necessity of selection

• Ethical consumerism as self-exclusion

• The Dispositions of the Metricised

• Laziness as a virtue 

• The Invention of Lifestyle

• The Blizzard of Photography

• The Fragile Movements of Late Modernity

• The threat of pseudo-activity

• The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

• The lonely monads of digital capitalism

• Conceptualising ‘distraction’

• The King of Kong: a documentary about celebrity gamers

• What happens in an internet minute?

• It’s not you, it’s capitalism

• The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

• The multiplication of communication channels

• Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

• Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

• A symposium on the digital subject

• Steve Fuller on information overload

• The chronopolitics of consumer anxiety

• The Fracturing of Free Time

• The Absent Horizon of Mortality

• Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

• “feeling more or less alive on different days”

• The Escalation Dynamics of Social Media

• Technology, Self and Society in an Era of Digital Rankings

• against a consensual theory of conventions

• CFP: Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject

• life planning as navigational guide rather than existential blueprint

• spammers as the avant-garde of digital capitalism 

• the tinderization of everyday life

• Roberto Unger on Flaws in the Human Condition

• enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

• special issue of @bigdatasoc on data and agency

• the distinction between ‘ambivalence’ and ‘mixed feelings’

• Digital Health/Digital Capitalism One Day Conference CfP 4th July 2016

• Michel Foucault – The Culture of the Self

• what makes human beings distinctive amongst animals?

• social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

• images of the human in digital social science

• southpark on the vertigo of the filter bubble

• Streams of Consciousness: Data, Cognition and Intelligent Devices

• the joys of being-in-the-zone

• a relational theory of addiction 

• manufacturing certainties in response to systemic uncertainties 

• the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

• digital capitalism and the acceleration of bullshit

• social media and the noise it injects into daily life 

• the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

• my brain has too many tabs open: the problem of attention in digital capitalism

• time use event in oxford

• digital distraction and human concern 

• liberating yourself from leisure activities

• the acceleration of consumption 

• the distracted people and fragile movements of digital capitalism