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anduprecariat”.However,theelectofthedevelopmentofdigital
technologies,itsinfluenceontheanaloguespheresofhumanlife,
andtheirrelationtoneoliberalismhavereceivedrelativelylittleat-
tention.Forexample,dothesuccessesofcompaniessuchasAmazon
andUberrelymostlyontheirtechnologicaladvancementordothey
insteadtakeadvantageofderegulationandglobalizationofeconomy,
whichallowscapitaliststoreturntothe19th-centurymodelsof
workers’exploitation?Giventhehighlevelofaccumulationofcapital
andtheperspectiveofmostjobsbeingtakenbyrobots,canwesay
thatthecurrentmodelofcapitalismisexhaustedandifso,what
systemwillreplaceit?Wehopedtofindanswerstothisandsimilar
questionsoratleastclarifythemduringthisevent,andourhopes
werenotinvain.Onceagain,wewereprivilegedtohostanumber
ofexcellentscholars,withGreggLambert,EwaMazierska,Adam
Nocek,andBernardStieglerprovidingkeynotelectures.Anumber
ofthepapersbecamefull-lengthchaptersinthisvolume,including
IvanDimitrijević’sanalysisofthemetaphysicsofworkandJulia
Krzesicka’spredictionsaboutthefutureofvoiceassistantdevices.
Tethirdeventoftheproject–theconferenceA.ectsandTeir
VicissitudesinthePostdigitalAge–washeldinOctober2019.Fol-
lowingthetitleofSigmundFreud’sfamouspaperInstinctsandTeir
Vicissitudes(1915),andsomeofthemostinterestinginsightsfrom
thepreviousevents,theconferencewasanattempttorethinkthe
categoriesofalectsandemotionsintheageoftechnology.Weal-
readyknewthattheconceptofalectgainedmuchcurrencyinrecent
decades,asdemonstratedbytheworkofauthorssuchasLaurenBer-
lant,EvaIllouz,BrianMassumi,DominicPettman,ColetteSoler,
andSherryTurkle.Authorsconcernedwithalectdrawattentionto
itsconnectiontobothnature(body)andculture(politics,economy,
andtechnology).Forexample,Illouzclaimsthatthedevelopment
ofcapitalismgoeshandinhandwiththeemergenceofahighly
specializedemotionalculture:emotionalcapitalism.Didwewant
tointerrogatethemanifestationsofthisphenomenonandtherela-
tionshipbetweenemotionsandtechnology(andespeciallydigital
technologies)?WewishedtofindoutifitistruethattheInternetand
socialmediathwarthumancapacityforalector,onthecontrary,if
theyencourageitsproliferationandmutation.Tisthirdconference
wasaparticularlymultifacetedeventwithpresentationsrangingfrom
