Paul O’Connor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Society at United Arab Emirates University. He is the author of Home: The Foundations of Belonging.Marius Ion Benta is Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Human Studies at the George Barițiu History Institute, Romania. He is the co-editor of Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations and the author of Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning.

• Introduction: The Technologisation of the Social: A 21st-Century Megamachine? 1. Communication as Theatricalisation: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age 2. Parasites of the Social: Digital Disruptions of the Labour Market 3. Possessed by Technology: The Metastasis of Absence 4. Technologisation of the Social: Symbiosis, Parasitism, or Predation? 5. J'accuse Zéro: The Technology of Zero and the Making of a Personal Void 6. Digital Affordances and the Liminal 7. The Smart Womb: Digital Technologies and the Maze of Trickster Politics 8. Brave New Industry? The Dark Side of Dematerialisation and Industry 4.0 9. ‘What Have You Caught?’: Nannycams and Hidden Cameras as Normalised Surveillance of the Intimate 10. Coercive Visibility: Discipline in the Digital Public Arena Conclusion: Is There a Way Out of the Technologisation of the Social?

Paul O’Connor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Society at United Arab Emirates University. He is the author of Home: The Foundations of Belonging.Marius Ion Benta is Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Human Studies at the George Barițiu History Institute, Romania. He is the co-editor of Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations and the author of Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning.

• Introduction: The Technologisation of the Social: A 21st-Century Megamachine? 1. Communication as Theatricalisation: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age 2. Parasites of the Social: Digital Disruptions of the Labour Market 3. Possessed by Technology: The Metastasis of Absence 4. Technologisation of the Social: Symbiosis, Parasitism, or Predation? 5. J'accuse Zéro: The Technology of Zero and the Making of a Personal Void 6. Digital Affordances and the Liminal 7. The Smart Womb: Digital Technologies and the Maze of Trickster Politics 8. Brave New Industry? The Dark Side of Dematerialisation and Industry 4.0 9. ‘What Have You Caught?’: Nannycams and Hidden Cameras as Normalised Surveillance of the Intimate 10. Coercive Visibility: Discipline in the Digital Public Arena Conclusion: Is There a Way Out of the Technologisation of the Social?

Paul O’Connor is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Society at United Arab Emirates University. He is the author of Home: The Foundations of Belonging.Marius Ion Benta is Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Human Studies at the George Barițiu History Institute, Romania. He is the co-editor of Walling, Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations and the author of Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning.

• Introduction: The Technologisation of the Social: A 21st-Century Megamachine? 1. Communication as Theatricalisation: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age 2. Parasites of the Social: Digital Disruptions of the Labour Market 3. Possessed by Technology: The Metastasis of Absence 4. Technologisation of the Social: Symbiosis, Parasitism, or Predation? 5. J'accuse Zéro: The Technology of Zero and the Making of a Personal Void 6. Digital Affordances and the Liminal 7. The Smart Womb: Digital Technologies and the Maze of Trickster Politics 8. Brave New Industry? The Dark Side of Dematerialisation and Industry 4.0 9. ‘What Have You Caught?’: Nannycams and Hidden Cameras as Normalised Surveillance of the Intimate 10. Coercive Visibility: Discipline in the Digital Public Arena Conclusion: Is There a Way Out of the Technologisation of the Social?