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Steven Connor

Professor Steven Connor

Professor of Living well with technology

  • Director of Research, Digital Futures Institute

Biography

BA and DPhil in English at Wadham College, Oxford from 1973-1980.

Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, London from 1980, and Professor of Modern Literature and Theory from 1994.

2003-2012, Academic Director, London Consortium Graduate Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies.

2012-22 Grace 2 Professor of English in University of Cambridge;

2018-22 Director of Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

  • Digital culture
  • Literary and cultural theory
  • Collective performance
  • Rhetoric of social institutions

Selected Publications

  • Dream Machines (London: Open Humanities Press, 2017)
  • The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (London: Reaktion 2019)
  • Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019)
  • A History of Asking (London: Open Humanities Press, 2023, forthcoming)
  • Dreamwork: Why All Work is Imaginary (London: Reaktion, 2023, forthcoming)

You can visit Professor Steven Connor's website here

    Research

    241121 4CAT
    KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

    KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

    Project status: Ongoing

    News

    'Seeking Connection: Living Well with Technology Exhibition' opens in Bush House

    The new exhibition from King’s Culture and the Digital Futures Institute features art installations and research collaborations exploring technology in...

    10 Seeking Connection Resizes (c) David Tett

    New exhibition will explore challenges and opportunities of emerging technologies

    King’s Culture and the Digital Futures Institute present 'Seeking Connection: Living Well with Technology'

    seeking connection banner with blue background, blobs and nodes in blue

    Material Minds? The rise of Chat GPT and AI

    With the rise of language-learning models such as Chat GPT and discussions around AI almost keeping pace with the technology itself, King's hosted a workshop...

    Material Minds1

    Digital Futures Institute to help 'understand what it means to live well with technology'

    A new Institute, due to launch publicly in April, will investigate the relationship between humans and the technologies that have helped extend our capacities...

    DFI Story

    Events

    19Mar

    King's Experts Series: the Ethics of AI

    The King’s Experts Series is a series of events exclusively for King’s alumni, this webinar will touch on some of the latest research on digital technology...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    18Jan

    Feedback Loops

    Words cannot always convey experience, thought and feeling. In this performance contemporary dancer Anna Spink interprets data from RADAR-CNS

    Please note: this event has passed.

    22Jun

    Sounding Modernism

    An interdisciplinary conference

    Please note: this event has passed.

    15Jun

    Intimacy by Design: Imagining ‘closeness’ in online and offline spaces

    Led by the Digital Futures Institute’s Centre for Technology and the Body, this event considers the meanings of intimacy, past, present and future.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    27Apr

    Discovering our Digital Futures and exploring our Global Cultures

    King's is pleased to launch the new Digital Futures Institute and Global Cultures Institute.

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Ubiquitous technology and the vanishing machines

    As part of our series, Net Gains? how we live well with technology, Professor Steven Connor asks whether our reliance on technology may have resulted in an...

    Steve no.2 Net gains (1903 × 588px)

    How do we live well with technology?

    Professor Steven Connor, Co-Director of the Digital Futures Institute, shares his personal insight into why we need to explore the question: how do we live...

    net gains live well hero

      Research

      241121 4CAT
      KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London

      KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research.

      Project status: Ongoing

      News

      'Seeking Connection: Living Well with Technology Exhibition' opens in Bush House

      The new exhibition from King’s Culture and the Digital Futures Institute features art installations and research collaborations exploring technology in...

      10 Seeking Connection Resizes (c) David Tett

      New exhibition will explore challenges and opportunities of emerging technologies

      King’s Culture and the Digital Futures Institute present 'Seeking Connection: Living Well with Technology'

      seeking connection banner with blue background, blobs and nodes in blue

      Material Minds? The rise of Chat GPT and AI

      With the rise of language-learning models such as Chat GPT and discussions around AI almost keeping pace with the technology itself, King's hosted a workshop...

      Material Minds1

      Digital Futures Institute to help 'understand what it means to live well with technology'

      A new Institute, due to launch publicly in April, will investigate the relationship between humans and the technologies that have helped extend our capacities...

      DFI Story

      Events

      19Mar

      King's Experts Series: the Ethics of AI

      The King’s Experts Series is a series of events exclusively for King’s alumni, this webinar will touch on some of the latest research on digital technology...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      18Jan

      Feedback Loops

      Words cannot always convey experience, thought and feeling. In this performance contemporary dancer Anna Spink interprets data from RADAR-CNS

      Please note: this event has passed.

      22Jun

      Sounding Modernism

      An interdisciplinary conference

      Please note: this event has passed.

      15Jun

      Intimacy by Design: Imagining ‘closeness’ in online and offline spaces

      Led by the Digital Futures Institute’s Centre for Technology and the Body, this event considers the meanings of intimacy, past, present and future.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      27Apr

      Discovering our Digital Futures and exploring our Global Cultures

      King's is pleased to launch the new Digital Futures Institute and Global Cultures Institute.

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Ubiquitous technology and the vanishing machines

      As part of our series, Net Gains? how we live well with technology, Professor Steven Connor asks whether our reliance on technology may have resulted in an...

      Steve no.2 Net gains (1903 × 588px)

      How do we live well with technology?

      Professor Steven Connor, Co-Director of the Digital Futures Institute, shares his personal insight into why we need to explore the question: how do we live...

      net gains live well hero