Category: talks

Southern Theories in ICT4D

In May 2019, David presented a paper at the IFIP 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, 1 – 3 May 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, entitled Southern Theories in...

Against Nature – an introduction

The day before acting as External Examiner at Uppsala University, David presented an introduction to his book, Against Nature, to a roomful of interested researchers and scholars. The slides are below. Against Nature: The Metaphysics...

Infomateriality at ICIS San Francisco

This presentation coincided with the submission of the manuscript of the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship Colloquium book to Routledge, and almost brings the Understanding Digital Events project to a close.  The contract with Routledge for...

Keynote Speaker in Sri Lanka

In September 2017 David was one of the invited Keynote Speakers at NITC / SEARCC CONFERENCE 2017 Colombo, Sri Lanka, speaking on Digital Inclusion.   I am a person from David Kreps  

I am a Person

David presented at ETHICOMP 2017, in Turin, Italy, in June 2017. Abstract: This paper presents a conception of personhood as both physical and social, and both as radically contingent upon their respective physical and social...

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Reassessing the Nature of IS

David presented at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) ‘Digital Innovation at the Crossroads’ Dublin 11-14 December 2016, in the Methodological and Philosophical Foundations of IS Track. David was one of nine nominees...

Matter and Memory and Deep Learning

David presented a paper at the ‘Diagnoses of Matter and Memory: Bergson and the Problems of Brain, Time and Memory’ 8th International Colloquium of Project Bergson in Japan, in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, 10th-13th...

An encounter between Gramsci, Marx, Foucault and Bergson

David presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cultural Political Economy: Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy, at the University of Bristol, Thursday, 25th August 2016. Abstract: Cultural Political Economy (CPE) as readily...

Durée Réelle : microphysical indetermination : creative emergence

David presented about his book, Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence, at the Deleuze Studies Conference 2016: Virtuality:Becoming:Life, Rome, Italy, 13/7/2016 Abstract: Durée Réelle : microphysical indetermination : creative emergence Bergson argues that measurable time is an...