Konstantinos Kerasovitis

My academic interests rest in the crux between employment, affect and the body, through the philosophical implications which emerge in view of the post-human convergence inherent in the quantification of labour. I take a human-centric and transdisciplinary approach to my subjects. Subjects, which stretch from the philosophy of technology to theology. My doctoral thesis is on Georges Bataille and digital labour, in which I raise questions against what we normally view as the virtues of labour, and argue for its erotic element. Influenced by Bataille, I have published on non-abstractive research methodology, and am also very proud to be featured in one of the first books that academically dissect the figure of the Zombie. My input in this respect deals with the phenomenon of creative stasis which cultural commodification brings about. My background is in design and I always consider what I do as a design process.

Publications

▪ (2025) Machines Against Measures, Work, Employment and Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1177/09500170241296806
▪ (2025) Choosing Everything: Bataille’s perishable moments of sainthood, Journal for Cultural Research DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2024.2406393
▪ (2024) To Know is to Compare, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2024.2396623
▪ (2023) Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies, Work, Employment and Society, [Book Review], DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155796
▪ (2023): Media culture in Nomadic Communities, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2229419
▪ (2023): Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies, Work, Employment and Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155796
▪ (2023): New Media and the Artaud Effect, Explorations in Media Ecology, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1386/eme_00167_5
▪ (2023): The triumph of profiling: the self in digital culture, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2062253
▪ (2022): “Zombie Colony: The Heteronomy of the Greek State & the Datura of Cultural Capital” in Theorising the Contemporary Zombie: Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures, Eds. Scott Eric Hamilton and Conor Heffernan, Wales University Press, Cardiff: pp. 161-184
▪ (2020): Post Qualitative Research - Reality through the Antihierarchical Assemblage of non-Calculation, DOI: 10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4756
▪ (2020): Posthuman knowledge, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1739733
▪ (2020): Luxury and visual culture, Visual Studies, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2020.1741948
▪ (2019): The data gaze: capitalism, power and perception, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1609544
▪ (2019): Artificial unintelligence: how computers misunderstand the world / The message is murder: substrates of computational capital, Information, Communication & Society, [Review Essay] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1576752
▪ (2019): Against nature: the metaphysics of information systems, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1515239
▪ (2018): Virtual workers and the global labour market, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1490797
▪ (2018): The quantified self in precarity. Work, technology and what counts, Information, Communication & Society, [Book Review] DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1409789

Conferences as Speaker

  • 21 September 2023: “The Incandescent Halo of Sin. Perishable sainthood in the flesh, in the now; against work, against duration” in Bataille Now: A transdisciplinary conference on the contemporary application of Georges Bataille’s thought, French Institute of Athens, Greece
  • 16 October 2019: “Contra-Positivism: Reflecting and Expanding on Post Qualitative Research.” in 4th World Conference on Qualitative Research, Lusófona University, Portugal
  • 25 July 2019: “Zombie Colony: The Heteronomy of the Greek State & The Datura of Cultural Capital” in Theorising Zombiism Conference, University College Dublin, Ireland