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  • The Ambivilance of the Abject

  • The Absent Horizon of Mortality

  • Mood – Aesthetic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

  • Henry Rollins on the pleasures of acceleration

  • stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

  • Henry Rollins on drugs, alcohol & self-transformation

  • “feeling more or less alive on different days”

  • CFP for the themed issue of ‘Subjectivity’ on Radical Negativity

  • on nihilism and hope

  • CFP: Digital Media, Psychoanalysis and the Subject

  • enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

  • from governing the body to governing the mind

  • the opaque subject and the elusive activity

  • how much time do workers spend worrying?

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

  • the recursive loop of technological metaphors for subjectivity

  • social psychological approaches to understanding why people are blasé about data security

  • what ‘freedom’ will mean in a gamified world

  • 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 

  • the affective basis of techno-fascism?

  • digital capitalism, fetishistic disavowal and faux-collectives 

  • the boss in your head: an unrecognised form of reflexivity?

  • the cruel optimism of the nine to fivers anthem

  • social media and the promise of never again being alone 

  • the politics of noise in historical perspective

  • freedom from self-imposed metrified tyranny: some thoughts on the moral psychology of self-tracking

  • the micro-politics of noise and the challenge of being-with-others

  • Relational Flourishing

  • Creativity as Apophatic

  • Selling psychopathy in late modernity

  • The cultural representation of our inner life

  • The gaps in which being human happens

  • There was no ‘I’ to do it, because the ‘I’ was the result

  • Time is always running out

  • The narrative significance of ‘unreadability’

  • The most ridiculous sentence I’ve ever read

  • Getting out of the mess of life

  • Doppelganger

  • BSA happiness Study Group Seminar Novermber 2014 Northumbria University

  • ONLY 2 PLACES LEFT!: The Psychosocial Imagination APS Launch Symposium 13 June

  • The sociology of Elliot Rodger

  • “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

  • The violent rage of the ‘nice guy’

  • The Psychosocial Imagination

  • The Importance of Disappointment

  • “Am I living my life right? As an INTP”

  • Wilhelm Reich’s 6 Rules for Creative Sanity

  • Doing nothing for 2 minutes: mindfulness, hyperactivity and technology loops

  • Death Online Research Symposium

  • Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

  • Open Panel: Quantifying Affect and Emotion, Past and Present

  • At what point do addictive games become sinister?

  • This Is Water

  • CfP: Death Online Research Symposium

  • Vipassana

  • Autism and Intense World Syndrome

  • The Sociology of Awkwardness

  • Nikolas Rose: What is Mental Illness Today? Five Hard Questions

  • The Self-Talk of Intellectuals

  • Education, Emotions and the Future Seminar

  • The Phenomenology of Inertia

  • The Phenomenology of Obsessiveness

  • The search for the ‘perfect’ situation

  • Some critical thoughts on psychosocial research

  • The Sociology of Daydreaming

  • Being Human, Emotionality and Everyday Life

  • Emotions as commentaries on human concerns

  • Researching Affect and Psychosocial Studies

  • CFP Beyond Binaries: Exploring the Psychosocial (A Postgraduate Conference at the University of East London, UK)

  • Taking the ‘inner eye’ out of introspection

  • In defence of Jacques Lacan (sort of)

  • Enquiring into Wellbeing: Reflections on Culture, Method and Inner Truths

  • “I’m having an argument with myself”: memory, identity and agency

  • The Psychopathology of Jacques Lacan or, Why Can’t Theorists Just Say What They Mean!??

  • Baking an idea in the unconscious mind

  • The Empty ‘Posturing’ of Žižek and Lacan?

  • Data Biographies, Contexts and Persons: Search Keywords as Windows to the Soul

  • Risk and Rapture: Apocalyptic Imagination in Late Modernity

  • Subjectivity and Subculture: One Day Symposium

  • voices and conversations; ‘real’ and ‘pathological’

  • Why do people believe what they believe? Getting beyond the idea there’s something wrong with people who disagree with us

  • Interrogating “the Social Unconscious” – 25th January

  • Psyche in the habitus? Last chance to book!

  • Call for Abstracts: Special Section on Happiness Research in Sociological Research Online 2013

  • The Caterpillar’s Question: Cultural Resources and Identity

  • Emotions and Reflexivity

  • Podcast: Foucault, Biopolitics and Critique

  • The fate of the individual in late capitalism

  • The Morphogenesis of the Intimate Role Array, or, Why It Is Fucking Stupid To Worry About Being a ‘Substitute Boyfriend’…

  • CfP:Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilisation, University of Hull 13-14 Sep 2012 (this looks fantastic)

  • The government of an ‘economy’ and the emergence of a ‘bioeconomy’

  • The tension at the heart of the DSM

  • The transition from psy discourse to neurochemical discourse

  • The creation of the ‘mind’

  • Nikolas Rose on the Reflexive Imperative and Health

  • Explaining personhood in the neuroscientific age

  • Being one’s organism, one’s experience

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