David W Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2762-939X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reflections on Leaving Facebook
On 13 August 2009 I deactivated my Facebook social networking account. The world remained on its axis but Facebook’s slightly sinister prediction that my friends would miss me turned out to be correct. A torrent of e-mails and text messages arrived in the days following, asking where I had gone. Many asked me to justify why I left, some out of curiosity and some out of shock. Besides the mundane reasons — such as the ongoing project of limiting p…
The worker-priests
This article explores the moral lessons organization studies can draw from the worker-priest movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The first section gives an account of the worker-priests and their organization in France. The second section, drawing on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas and Leonardo Boff, identifies in this organization a resonance of care that operates via four techniques: proximity; self-divestment; radical giving…
Photosynethics
It has been suggested that we turn to solar geoengineering to counter global warming, which would consequently transform the relationship of terrestrial plant-life to the sun. This is an article not about geoengineering as such, but instead what is called photosynethics, or, thinking about our moral relationship to the light -in particular, as it is mediated by plants. Working from within but then extending the idea of responsibility found in the…
Trajectories in platform capitalism
Platforms are digital ecosystems that bring together various actors to form multi-sided markets. This bringing together entails an organisation of trajectories that in turn organises those moved by them into experiential and existential orders. This article sets out a general account of trajectories under these conditions, first identifying three kinds that animate a system of platform capitalism: (1) Data Trajectory as the movement and represent…
Communication as a moral vocation
The use of safe spaces in universities has become increasingly controversial over the last few years. Safe spaces are set up to offer an environment in which marginalised identities and hidden experiences can be given a voice, allowing for acceptance and affirmation. Their critics charge that they are at odds with the university as a site of debate; that their use has a chilling effect on free speech; and even that safe spaces are harmful to libe…
Goodbye iSlave
‘Perhaps for the Foxconn employees like us’, writes one employee of the now notorious Taiwanese-owned factories in China, ‘the use of death is simply to testify that we were ever alive at all, and
Speed and pessimism
Paul Virilio passed away on the 10th of September 2018. This article surveys his considerable legacy to cultural theory in order to locate a largely dormant contribution to questions of moral responsibility and experience. Whilst the phenomenological foundations of Virilio’s work are well known, it is argued here that, more than this, his work ought to be understood as an example of ethics as first philosophy. There is a certain methodological ch…
Visibly Mute
In this paper, we argue for an ethical understanding of exurban environments, which we propose as symptomatic spaces of neoliberalization. We outline the idea that civility within public places is a mode of moral communication grounded in everyday encounters and embedded in the ordinary places in which they are enacted. We also advance the argument that exurban environments, as properties of neoliberal capital, employ distinct strategies to monop…
Appetite, appetite hormone and energy intake responses to two consecutive days of aerobic exercise in healthy young men
Single bouts of exercise do not cause compensatory changes in appetite, food intake or appetite regulatory hormones on the day that exercise is performed. It remains possible that such changes occur over an extended period or in response to a higher level of energy expenditure. This study sought to test this possibility by examining appetite, food intake and appetite regulatory hormones (acylated ghrelin, total peptide-YY, leptin and insulin) ove…
Class, trust and confessional media in Austerity Britain
This article situates The Jeremy Kyle Show, a television talk show broadcast in the United Kingdom, in wider narratives of austerity politics in order to explore the reinforcement and legitimation through reality television of neoliberal measures for economic crisis management. In the first section, it is argued that technologies of confession – lie detectors, paternity tests, drug testing – are used on guests who are deemed, by virtue of class p…
Avatar Ethics
Emmanuel Levinas argues that moral responsibility is enacted in the encounter between two people. Increasingly, however, encounters take place online and, rather than between two people, are mediated by virtual representatives known as avatars. In this paper I explore the theoretical conditions for grounding encounters between users mediated by these online proxies, and the extent that they can be convincingly cast as moral. First, I draw on aest…
Total Gating
Starting with a description of Wynyard Park in Teesside, a development that combines gated residence, workplace and leisure space, ‘fear of the other’ is identified as a key but underexplored motivating force behind this kind of ‘total gating’, an argument based on existing empirical studies of gated communities. It is argued that a radical reading of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the other can do the explanatory work that would flesh out this allu…
In Our Time Of Dying
IN OUR TIME OF DYING Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times, London, Verso, 2010, 415 pp; £20 cloth. The publication of Slavoj Zizek's Living in the End Times was something of a media event in Britain. An interview with the philosopher and psychoanalyst appeared in the Observer whilst (an increasingly frustrated) Gavin Esler made a commendable attempt at a conversation with the motor-brained thinker on the BBC's Newsnight program. All of which sug…
Virtual Communities
Trouble with Strangers
Childhood victimization
The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published here in full are Ralph Waldo Emerson's nine poetry notebooks, the single greatest source of information about his creative habits in poetry. Emerson kept rough drafts, revised versions, and fair copies of hundreds of poems in these notebooks, so that the genesis and development of poems both famous and obscure can be traced closely. notebooks have been remarkably little consulted, primarily because their unedited textual condition makes…
An Emerson Celebration
Trajectories in platform capitalism
Platforms are digital ecosystems that bring together various actors to form multi-sided markets. This bringing together entails an organisation of trajectories that in turn organises those moved by them into experiential and existential orders. This article sets out a general account of trajectories under these conditions, first identifying three kinds that animate a system of platform capitalism: (1) Data Trajectory as the movement and represent…
Class, trust and confessional media in Austerity Britain
This article situates The Jeremy Kyle Show, a television talk show broadcast in the United Kingdom, in wider narratives of austerity politics in order to explore the reinforcement and legitimation through reality television of neoliberal measures for economic crisis management. In the first section, it is argued that technologies of confession – lie detectors, paternity tests, drug testing – are used on guests who are deemed, by virtue of class p…
Appetite, appetite hormone and energy intake responses to two consecutive days of aerobic exercise in healthy young men
Single bouts of exercise do not cause compensatory changes in appetite, food intake or appetite regulatory hormones on the day that exercise is performed. It remains possible that such changes occur over an extended period or in response to a higher level of energy expenditure. This study sought to test this possibility by examining appetite, food intake and appetite regulatory hormones (acylated ghrelin, total peptide-YY, leptin and insulin) ove…
Communication as a moral vocation
The use of safe spaces in universities has become increasingly controversial over the last few years. Safe spaces are set up to offer an environment in which marginalised identities and hidden experiences can be given a voice, allowing for acceptance and affirmation. Their critics charge that they are at odds with the university as a site of debate; that their use has a chilling effect on free speech; and even that safe spaces are harmful to libe…
Total Gating
Starting with a description of Wynyard Park in Teesside, a development that combines gated residence, workplace and leisure space, ‘fear of the other’ is identified as a key but underexplored motivating force behind this kind of ‘total gating’, an argument based on existing empirical studies of gated communities. It is argued that a radical reading of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the other can do the explanatory work that would flesh out this allu…
Visibly Mute
In this paper, we argue for an ethical understanding of exurban environments, which we propose as symptomatic spaces of neoliberalization. We outline the idea that civility within public places is a mode of moral communication grounded in everyday encounters and embedded in the ordinary places in which they are enacted. We also advance the argument that exurban environments, as properties of neoliberal capital, employ distinct strategies to monop…
An Emerson Celebration
The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published here in full are Ralph Waldo Emerson's nine poetry notebooks, the single greatest source of information about his creative habits in poetry. Emerson kept rough drafts, revised versions, and fair copies of hundreds of poems in these notebooks, so that the genesis and development of poems both famous and obscure can be traced closely. notebooks have been remarkably little consulted, primarily because their unedited textual condition makes…
Childhood victimization
Trouble with Strangers
Virtual Communities
In Our Time Of Dying
IN OUR TIME OF DYING Slavoj Zizek, Living in the End Times, London, Verso, 2010, 415 pp; £20 cloth. The publication of Slavoj Zizek's Living in the End Times was something of a media event in Britain. An interview with the philosopher and psychoanalyst appeared in the Observer whilst (an increasingly frustrated) Gavin Esler made a commendable attempt at a conversation with the motor-brained thinker on the BBC's Newsnight program. All of which sug…
Total Gating
Starting with a description of Wynyard Park in Teesside, a development that combines gated residence, workplace and leisure space, ‘fear of the other’ is identified as a key but underexplored motivating force behind this kind of ‘total gating’, an argument based on existing empirical studies of gated communities. It is argued that a radical reading of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the other can do the explanatory work that would flesh out this allu…
Avatar Ethics
Emmanuel Levinas argues that moral responsibility is enacted in the encounter between two people. Increasingly, however, encounters take place online and, rather than between two people, are mediated by virtual representatives known as avatars. In this paper I explore the theoretical conditions for grounding encounters between users mediated by these online proxies, and the extent that they can be convincingly cast as moral. First, I draw on aest…
Appetite, appetite hormone and energy intake responses to two consecutive days of aerobic exercise in healthy young men
Single bouts of exercise do not cause compensatory changes in appetite, food intake or appetite regulatory hormones on the day that exercise is performed. It remains possible that such changes occur over an extended period or in response to a higher level of energy expenditure. This study sought to test this possibility by examining appetite, food intake and appetite regulatory hormones (acylated ghrelin, total peptide-YY, leptin and insulin) ove…
Class, trust and confessional media in Austerity Britain
This article situates The Jeremy Kyle Show, a television talk show broadcast in the United Kingdom, in wider narratives of austerity politics in order to explore the reinforcement and legitimation through reality television of neoliberal measures for economic crisis management. In the first section, it is argued that technologies of confession – lie detectors, paternity tests, drug testing – are used on guests who are deemed, by virtue of class p…
Visibly Mute
In this paper, we argue for an ethical understanding of exurban environments, which we propose as symptomatic spaces of neoliberalization. We outline the idea that civility within public places is a mode of moral communication grounded in everyday encounters and embedded in the ordinary places in which they are enacted. We also advance the argument that exurban environments, as properties of neoliberal capital, employ distinct strategies to monop…
Goodbye iSlave
‘Perhaps for the Foxconn employees like us’, writes one employee of the now notorious Taiwanese-owned factories in China, ‘the use of death is simply to testify that we were ever alive at all, and
Speed and pessimism
Paul Virilio passed away on the 10th of September 2018. This article surveys his considerable legacy to cultural theory in order to locate a largely dormant contribution to questions of moral responsibility and experience. Whilst the phenomenological foundations of Virilio’s work are well known, it is argued here that, more than this, his work ought to be understood as an example of ethics as first philosophy. There is a certain methodological ch…
Communication as a moral vocation
The use of safe spaces in universities has become increasingly controversial over the last few years. Safe spaces are set up to offer an environment in which marginalised identities and hidden experiences can be given a voice, allowing for acceptance and affirmation. Their critics charge that they are at odds with the university as a site of debate; that their use has a chilling effect on free speech; and even that safe spaces are harmful to libe…
Trajectories in platform capitalism
Platforms are digital ecosystems that bring together various actors to form multi-sided markets. This bringing together entails an organisation of trajectories that in turn organises those moved by them into experiential and existential orders. This article sets out a general account of trajectories under these conditions, first identifying three kinds that animate a system of platform capitalism: (1) Data Trajectory as the movement and represent…
Photosynethics
It has been suggested that we turn to solar geoengineering to counter global warming, which would consequently transform the relationship of terrestrial plant-life to the sun. This is an article not about geoengineering as such, but instead what is called photosynethics, or, thinking about our moral relationship to the light -in particular, as it is mediated by plants. Working from within but then extending the idea of responsibility found in the…
The worker-priests
This article explores the moral lessons organization studies can draw from the worker-priest movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The first section gives an account of the worker-priests and their organization in France. The second section, drawing on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas and Leonardo Boff, identifies in this organization a resonance of care that operates via four techniques: proximity; self-divestment; radical giving…
Reflections on Leaving Facebook
On 13 August 2009 I deactivated my Facebook social networking account. The world remained on its axis but Facebook’s slightly sinister prediction that my friends would miss me turned out to be correct. A torrent of e-mails and text messages arrived in the days following, asking where I had gone. Many asked me to justify why I left, some out of curiosity and some out of shock. Besides the mundane reasons — such as the ongoing project of limiting p…
Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works)