About

What does it mean to speak of a digital condition? How can we describe, explain and understand our digital condition? What is it, that we are trying to come to terms with? Where exactly does ‘the problem’ of technology lie?

The Digital Condition is a dialogue and annotation project beginning on October 21st, 2019. It combines face-to-face and platformised exchange, respecting the integrity of each, producing a multilayered syllabus which we hope might grow in time into something akin to an anti-canon.

Each week will be dedicated to one text suggested and introduced by our participants. You can find the whole schedule here. There will be a short audio snippet in which the speaker introduces their text combined with a mini essay which goes into more detail about its significance. We encourage everyone to read along and comment on these texts within Medium, as well as debate on Twitter using the hashtag #TheDigitalCondition.

Please feel free to comment, discuss and respond to the introductory papers published here, or join us in one of our weekly reading sessions at the Culture, Politics and Global Justice research cluster at the University of Cambridge.

The sessions will take place every Monday at 4pm-6pm in Donald McIntyre Building room GS1. Here are directions to the Faculty. Participants from outside the university couldn’t be more welcome: just sign in at the desk and ask for directions to room GS1.