Chris Till
Biographic Data
| ID | 346829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Till |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Till |
| SIGNATURE | TILL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3693-7319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sound Health: Finding Resonance Through Using Streaming Services for Health, Exercise and Wellness
This article explores how individuals use streaming services to support exercise and wellness practices, proposing that the primary motivation is not merely functional fitness goals but the attainment of a state of resonance or a meaningful connection between body, media, and the world. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance and theories of sonic environments and self-formation, the study uses semi-structured interviews and diary-elicitat…
Bauman, Zygmunt: Theory and Society
CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World
This article applies Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity to understand the dynamics of temporary communities through the branded strength and conditioning programme of CrossFit (CF). By drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews across 4 different UK CF gyms, we argue that to some participants CF offers a temporary return to a modified version of the strong social bonds associated with older forms of community (described by Ferdinand Tönnie…
Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces
Based on: Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces, by Pfeiffer Sabine. Beilefeld, DE: transcript publishing, 2022. 282 pp. $70.00 paper. ISBN: 9783837658934
Propaganda through 'reflexive control' and the mediated construction of reality
The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater visibility and significance in political action. 'Fake news' and micro-targeted and deceptive advertising in elections and votes has brought the tenuous character of political reality to the fore. The affordances of the Internet, World Wide Web and social media have ena…
Creating 'automatic subjects: Corporate wellness and self-tracking
The use of self-tracking devices has increased dramatically in recent years with enthusiasm from the public as well as public health officers, healthcare providers and workplaces seeking to instigate behaviour change in populations. Analysis of the ontological principles informing the design and implementation of the Apple Watch and corporate wellness programmes using self-tracking technologies shows that their primary focus is on the capture and…
The limits of responsible innovation: Exploring care, vulnerability and precision medicine
Drawing on insights from feminist and Science and Technology Studies writing on care and vulnerability, this paper will critically explore conceptualisations of responsibility, care and vulnerability in relation to contemporary approaches to Responsible Innovation (RI). Drawing on examples of some of the social and ethical challenges of precision medicine, we highlight the on-going, distributed and complex nature of innovation and responsibilitie…
Finding Humanity in a Digital World
Communication and the ability to share meaning, thoughts, and feelings are essential to living a fully human life, and today more information is shared than at any other time in history, often in the form of a “digital exhaust” of which we may be only dimly aware. Might this communication be damaging to our physical, mental, and social lives? David Hill, a social and cultural theorist, presents a highly focused analytical reading of the present s…
Sociologija ir šiuolaikinė kritinė teorija
This editorial summarises a series of eight papers for the Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas special issue, 'Sociology and Contemporary Critical Theory', the impetus for which came out of a symposium held in April 2017 at Leeds Beckett University, entitled 'Critical and Philosophical Issues after Post-Structuralism'. The event was organised by the Critical Theory Research Group, its members' intellectual interests spanning social and cultural theor…
Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: Tensões, Paradoxos E Possibilidades
Este artigo explora as tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades da inovação responsável em contextos transnacionais. Argumenta-se que a inovação responsável, embora apresente um potencial transformador, enfrenta desafios significativos quando aplicada em diferentes culturas e sistemas de governança. O artigo destaca a importância de considerar as especificidades locais e a necessidade de abordagens flexíveis e adaptativas para promover a inovação resp…
Responsible innovation across borders: Tensions, paradoxes and possibilities
In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’. In this Perspective we describe key reflections and observations from the workshop discussions, paying particular attention to the discourse of responsible innovation from a cross-cultural perspectiv…
Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour
The recent increase in the use of digital self-tracking devices has given rise to a range of relations to the self often discussed as quantified self (QS). In popular and academic discourse, this development has been discussed variously as a form of narcissistic self-involvement, an advanced expression of panoptical self-surveillance and a potential new dawn for e-health. This article proposes a previously un-theorised consequence of this large-s…
Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures
Drawing on critical analyses of the internet inspired by Gilles Deleuze and the Marxist autonomia movement, this paper suggests a way of understanding the impact of the internet and digital culture on identity and social forms through a consideration of the relationship between controls exercised through the internet, new subjectivities constituted through its use and new labour practices enabled by it. Following Castells, we can see that the dis…
Becoming dislocated: On Bauman’s subjective culture
Three of Zygmunt Bauman's recent books are assessed to present insights into the recent development of his thought and the challenges it poses to the social sciences, humanities and the wider public. By reading Bauman's recent work through the influence he takes from Georg Simmel, the former's disparate recent work is understood as an attempt at the cultivation of critical and ethical engagement through the externalization and objectification of …
The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity
The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more fundamentally associated with femininity due to certain disciplinary changes in the psy sciences. The influential psychiatrist Hilde Bruch lamented the loss in clarity of the clinical picture tha…
Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour
The recent increase in the use of digital self-tracking devices has given rise to a range of relations to the self often discussed as quantified self (QS). In popular and academic discourse, this development has been discussed variously as a form of narcissistic self-involvement, an advanced expression of panoptical self-surveillance and a potential new dawn for e-health. This article proposes a previously un-theorised consequence of this large-s…
The limits of responsible innovation: Exploring care, vulnerability and precision medicine
Drawing on insights from feminist and Science and Technology Studies writing on care and vulnerability, this paper will critically explore conceptualisations of responsibility, care and vulnerability in relation to contemporary approaches to Responsible Innovation (RI). Drawing on examples of some of the social and ethical challenges of precision medicine, we highlight the on-going, distributed and complex nature of innovation and responsibilitie…
Creating 'automatic subjects: Corporate wellness and self-tracking
The use of self-tracking devices has increased dramatically in recent years with enthusiasm from the public as well as public health officers, healthcare providers and workplaces seeking to instigate behaviour change in populations. Analysis of the ontological principles informing the design and implementation of the Apple Watch and corporate wellness programmes using self-tracking technologies shows that their primary focus is on the capture and…
Propaganda through 'reflexive control' and the mediated construction of reality
The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater visibility and significance in political action. 'Fake news' and micro-targeted and deceptive advertising in elections and votes has brought the tenuous character of political reality to the fore. The affordances of the Internet, World Wide Web and social media have ena…
The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity
The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more fundamentally associated with femininity due to certain disciplinary changes in the psy sciences. The influential psychiatrist Hilde Bruch lamented the loss in clarity of the clinical picture tha…
CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World
This article applies Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity to understand the dynamics of temporary communities through the branded strength and conditioning programme of CrossFit (CF). By drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews across 4 different UK CF gyms, we argue that to some participants CF offers a temporary return to a modified version of the strong social bonds associated with older forms of community (described by Ferdinand Tönnie…
Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures
Drawing on critical analyses of the internet inspired by Gilles Deleuze and the Marxist autonomia movement, this paper suggests a way of understanding the impact of the internet and digital culture on identity and social forms through a consideration of the relationship between controls exercised through the internet, new subjectivities constituted through its use and new labour practices enabled by it. Following Castells, we can see that the dis…
The quantification of gender: Anorexia nervosa and femininity
The ways in which Anorexia Nervosa (AN) has been described and explained has differed drastically over time although since it was first named in 1874 it has been primarily associated with women and girls it is argued in this paper that it came to be more fundamentally associated with femininity due to certain disciplinary changes in the psy sciences. The influential psychiatrist Hilde Bruch lamented the loss in clarity of the clinical picture tha…
Architects of time: Labouring on digital futures
Drawing on critical analyses of the internet inspired by Gilles Deleuze and the Marxist autonomia movement, this paper suggests a way of understanding the impact of the internet and digital culture on identity and social forms through a consideration of the relationship between controls exercised through the internet, new subjectivities constituted through its use and new labour practices enabled by it. Following Castells, we can see that the dis…
Becoming dislocated: On Bauman’s subjective culture
Three of Zygmunt Bauman's recent books are assessed to present insights into the recent development of his thought and the challenges it poses to the social sciences, humanities and the wider public. By reading Bauman's recent work through the influence he takes from Georg Simmel, the former's disparate recent work is understood as an attempt at the cultivation of critical and ethical engagement through the externalization and objectification of …
Responsible innovation across borders: Tensions, paradoxes and possibilities
In March 2014 a group of early career researchers and academics from São Paulo state and from the UK met at the University of Campinas to participate in a workshop on ‘Responsible Innovation and the Governance of Socially Controversial Technologies’. In this Perspective we describe key reflections and observations from the workshop discussions, paying particular attention to the discourse of responsible innovation from a cross-cultural perspectiv…
Exercise as Labour: Quantified Self and the Transformation of Exercise into Labour
The recent increase in the use of digital self-tracking devices has given rise to a range of relations to the self often discussed as quantified self (QS). In popular and academic discourse, this development has been discussed variously as a form of narcissistic self-involvement, an advanced expression of panoptical self-surveillance and a potential new dawn for e-health. This article proposes a previously un-theorised consequence of this large-s…
Inovação responsável através de fronteiras: Tensões, Paradoxos E Possibilidades
Este artigo explora as tensões, paradoxos e possibilidades da inovação responsável em contextos transnacionais. Argumenta-se que a inovação responsável, embora apresente um potencial transformador, enfrenta desafios significativos quando aplicada em diferentes culturas e sistemas de governança. O artigo destaca a importância de considerar as especificidades locais e a necessidade de abordagens flexíveis e adaptativas para promover a inovação resp…
Finding Humanity in a Digital World
Communication and the ability to share meaning, thoughts, and feelings are essential to living a fully human life, and today more information is shared than at any other time in history, often in the form of a “digital exhaust” of which we may be only dimly aware. Might this communication be damaging to our physical, mental, and social lives? David Hill, a social and cultural theorist, presents a highly focused analytical reading of the present s…
Sociologija ir šiuolaikinė kritinė teorija
This editorial summarises a series of eight papers for the Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas special issue, 'Sociology and Contemporary Critical Theory', the impetus for which came out of a symposium held in April 2017 at Leeds Beckett University, entitled 'Critical and Philosophical Issues after Post-Structuralism'. The event was organised by the Critical Theory Research Group, its members' intellectual interests spanning social and cultural theor…
The limits of responsible innovation: Exploring care, vulnerability and precision medicine
Drawing on insights from feminist and Science and Technology Studies writing on care and vulnerability, this paper will critically explore conceptualisations of responsibility, care and vulnerability in relation to contemporary approaches to Responsible Innovation (RI). Drawing on examples of some of the social and ethical challenges of precision medicine, we highlight the on-going, distributed and complex nature of innovation and responsibilitie…
Creating 'automatic subjects: Corporate wellness and self-tracking
The use of self-tracking devices has increased dramatically in recent years with enthusiasm from the public as well as public health officers, healthcare providers and workplaces seeking to instigate behaviour change in populations. Analysis of the ontological principles informing the design and implementation of the Apple Watch and corporate wellness programmes using self-tracking technologies shows that their primary focus is on the capture and…
Propaganda through 'reflexive control' and the mediated construction of reality
The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater visibility and significance in political action. 'Fake news' and micro-targeted and deceptive advertising in elections and votes has brought the tenuous character of political reality to the fore. The affordances of the Internet, World Wide Web and social media have ena…
Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces
Based on: Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces, by Pfeiffer Sabine. Beilefeld, DE: transcript publishing, 2022. 282 pp. $70.00 paper. ISBN: 9783837658934
Sound Health: Finding Resonance Through Using Streaming Services for Health, Exercise and Wellness
This article explores how individuals use streaming services to support exercise and wellness practices, proposing that the primary motivation is not merely functional fitness goals but the attainment of a state of resonance or a meaningful connection between body, media, and the world. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance and theories of sonic environments and self-formation, the study uses semi-structured interviews and diary-elicitat…
Bauman, Zygmunt: Theory and Society
CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World
This article applies Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity to understand the dynamics of temporary communities through the branded strength and conditioning programme of CrossFit (CF). By drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews across 4 different UK CF gyms, we argue that to some participants CF offers a temporary return to a modified version of the strong social bonds associated with older forms of community (described by Ferdinand Tönnie…
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