This week my Warwick colleague Prof Oliver Davis and I co-hosted the second ‘Ends of Autonomy’ colloquium, eqploring how freedom is changing today in the light of new technologies, climate change and neoliberalism. Where presenters gave their consent, sessions were recorded and uploaded to the Ends of Autonomy Colloquia YouTube channel. Below are the videos from this week’s colloquium (keynotes first). The videos from the July colloquium are here.

Mark Andrejevic (Monash University), Automating Surveillance: Post-Representational and Post-Subjective Governance

Jessica Whyte (University of New South Wales), Neoliberalism and the margin of freedom

Vincent Le (Monash University), Artificial Will: From the Autonomization of Ends to the End of Autonomy

Tim Christiaens (University of Leuven), Autonomy in the Age of Platform Capitalism

Sarah E. Carter (National University of Ireland, Galway), Four-Dimensional Autonomy in a Digital Age: Where are Privacy Notices Going Wrong?

Pascal Brixel (Clemson University), Why we work

 

Oliver Davis (University of Warwick), Sovereignty and autonomy in the recent work of Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval

Christopher Watkin (Monash University), Autonomy as pathology: rewriting the social contract

Ali Alizadeh (Monash University), Who Is Legend?: Viral Infection, Horror and Freedom

 

Felicity Chaplin (Monash University), Liberty Leading the People? Dress liberty and autonomy in post-#MeToo France

 

Jeremy Ahearne (University of Warwick), Universal Language: Heteronomy’s Promises of Freedom

 

Graham Wood (University of Tasmania), Sustainable Freedom

 

Conall Cash (Cornell University), Freedom as Self-Constitution in Literary Modernism: On Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

 

Nick Hewlett (Warwick University), Capitalism today and the prospects for socialist freedom

 

Dan Taylor (The Open University), Climate Anxiety, Fatalism and the Capacity to Act