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Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

  • The disjointed temporality of political life

  • Nietzsche on the narrow chamber of human consciousness

  • Things I’ve realised in 45 days of not drinking

  • On the Rat Race

  • Some thoughts on the bullet journal, omnifocus and getting things done

  • Social acceleration and the possibility of the sacred 

  • Hilary Clinton: The oddly fascinating confessions of a political centrist

  • The Digital Monad

  • The digital hipster: when cultural modernism meets accelerated work

  • The Ideal of the Digital Nomad

  • Time-packing and space-packing

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

  • Anticipatory Urgency

  • Perfecting the work/life blend

  • On Social Acceleration

  • Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

  • Two Visions of our Automated Retail Future

  • It looks like you’re trying to write a digital detox piece

  • Metrics and the death of imagination

  • Chronosolidarity

  • Digitalisation and the elimination of latency 

  • Cultural scaffolding for greedy social roles

  • Collapsing the parameters of our worlds

  • Social Movements and Pseudo-Activity 

  • The acceleration of politics and the impossibility of theory

  • The Individualisation of Utopia

  • The emotional dimension of chronopolitics

  • The digital avoidance of difference

  • Structural limits to self-control

  • The colonisation of life by work

  • Laziness as a virtue 

  • The Invention of Lifestyle

  • “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

  • Super-ego individualization

  • The Psychoanalytics of Temporising

  • Coping with acceleration: triaging strategies and the new empiricism

  • The Accelerative Ethos of Steve Jobs

  • The Entlastung of the Quantified Self

  • the challenge of cultural abundance

  • The Temporal Cost of the Commute

  • Convenience rather than urgency as a driver of constant connectivity

  • The Pains of Work and the Relief of the Refrain

  • The Temporal Constraints of Consumption

  • The chronopolitics of consumer anxiety

  • Gorz’s concept of hygiene 

  • The Work Dogma and Contraction of the Existential Imagination

  • The intensification of work and the death of imagination

  • Reducing structural problems to lifestyle issues 

  • Zygmunt Bauman’s Chronopolitics

  • Cognitive triage in politics

  • Henry Rollins on the pleasures of acceleration

  • stuck in the mess of life: anticipation and disappointment

  • Henry Rollins was on BBC Hard Talk!

  • Henry Rollins on drugs, alcohol & self-transformation

  • Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

  • the corporate housewife, eliminating the need for mundane reflexivity

  • institutionalised goal setting in tech firms 

  • self-tracking to pre-empt social tracking

  • Everyday analytics: The politics and practices of self-monitoring

  • against ‘hybrid beings’ as a way of understanding our entanglement with digital tech 

  • social media and constraints upon personal morphogensis 

  • images of the human in digital social science

  • the sociology of ‘blotting out’ experience 

  • the intensification of work and the competitive busyness of ceos

  • the preoccupations of life hackers

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