Situating and pluralising the digital involuntary

In this paper we revisit the Ricœur-inspired concept of the digital involuntary. First, we consider its implications for how we understand the changing nature of consciousness in a time of deepening A.I. influence on our lifeworld. Second, we explore the importance of moving beyond a concern for individual freedom to consider collectivised responses to the digital involuntary. Third, we consider how questions of digital freedom can be situated so as to better understand the differential social experience of the digital involuntary. Finally, we reflect on the implications of the reappropriation of the self within digital geography we originally proposed.