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SzymonWróbel,KrzysztofSkonieczny
ofuthesocial”becomeshereuthesociologyofassociations”or–in
Latour’ssense–uassociology”,usociologyoftranslation”,uactant-rhi-
zomeontology”,orusociologyofinnovation”.
Basedonthesepreliminaryfindings,thethreeconferencesthat
stemmedfromtheprojectsweredevotedtoareaswherethetechno-
logicalandthesocialintertwineintoday’sworld,namely,selfhood,
work,andthealectivedimensionofourlife.Ineachcase,weasked
whatdothevariousinterconnectionsintroducedbydigitaltechnol-
ogiesmeanforthegivenproblemandhowthesocialandthetech-
nologicalwillcontinuetoshapeeachotherinthefuture.
Inparticular,duringthefirstconference,TeSelfandDigitalIden-
tityintheEraof“NetworkedSociety”,whichwasheldinOctober2018,
weaskedaboutthechangestoourselfhoodandsubjectivitybrought
aboutbynewtechnologies.Testartingpointoftheconferencewas
onceagainasimpleintuition:thereisajustifiedanalogybetweenthe
emergenceoftheeraofalphabeticalwritingdiscretisingspeechflows
andtheadventoftheageofdigitalmediadiscretisingaudiovisual
timeobjects(pictures).Anetworkedsocietyis–inthisperspective–
asocietyinwhichindividuals(people)arepermanentlyconnected
witheveryone,formingatwo-waynetworkallowingeachperson
totakeupthepositionbothofthesenderandthereceiver.Insuch
anetworkoneureceives”inproportiontowhatoneutransmits”,that
is,onepublicizesone’sreception,which–inturn–becomesone’s
creation.Wishingtorethinktheelectsofsuchnetworkingonsub-
jectivity,wegatheredanumberofscholarswhoworkedinvarious
perspectivesanddisciplines–fromMartinHeideggerandWalter
BenjamintoBrunoLatour,MichelFoucault,andBernardStiegler;
fromphilosophyandsociologytofilm,animal,andgamestudies.
JamesW.Besse’s,MichaelStemerowicz’s,andAgataSzepe’schapters
stemfromthisevent.
Duringthesecondinstallmentofourseries,TeFutureofWork
inthePostdigitalAge,heldinMay2019,weaskedabouthowwork
andleisurehavechangedalongwiththeso-called4thIndustrial
Revolution.Testartingpointoftheconferencewasawidelyac-
knowledgedfactthatworkhasundergoneprofoundchangessince
theintroductionofdigitaltechnologies,whichcoincidedwiththe
hegemonyofneoliberalism.Tisisexpressedbytermssuchasudig-
itallabor”,uimmateriallabor”,ubiotechnologies”,ugifteconomy”,
