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  • 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

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