About — Conor Heaney

‘Lighting the Way: Policy Considerations for “Healthy Lighting”’. [Presented at Light & Physiology Interest Group]. US Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Program, October 2025.

‘Stiegler’s Process Philosophy of Technology and the Automation of Liberal Institutions’. [Paper presented at Critical Legal Conference 2025]. University of Exeter, September 2025 (co-authored with Connal Parsley)

‘Revitalising Health with Canguilhem? Between Biological Normativity and the Biopolitical’. [Paper presented at Critical Legal Conference 2025]. University of Exeter, September 2025.

‘Ecosophical Rhythmanalysis’. [Paper presented at Critical Legal Conference 2025]. University of Exeter, September 2025

‘Rhythmanalytical Method and Econormativity’. [Paper presented at Technosocial Normativities: Second Workshop on Econormativity.] Hong Kong University, May 2025

‘Response to Anne Alombert’s Digital Schizophrenia & Other Essays’. [Author Book Panel at Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.] Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront, December 2024.

‘Response to Ben Turner’s Returning to Judgment’. [Author Book Panel at Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy.] Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront, December 2024.

‘Canguilhem, Infidelity, Normative Speed, and Thought’. [Keynote response and panel discussant at Ecology, Technology and Law: Towards an Econormativity.] Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. November 2024. [With Margaret Davies (keynote) and Connal Parsley.]

‘Technics, Rhythm, Encephalization’. [Paper presented at Decision After the Algorithmic Turn: Politics, Ethics, Ontology.] Kent Law School, University of Kent, September 2024.

‘Leroi-Gourhan and the Critique of Cerebralism': Technics & Rhythm, Gesture & Program’. [Paper presented at The Magic Machine: Through the Prism of Art and Science. Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age [TEDA]]. Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, September 2024.

‘ῥυθμός to Rhythmanalysis’. [Paper presented at Rhythm as Knowledge: A Transdisciplinary Symposium.] CRASHH & Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, July 2024.

‘“Good Decisions” and Cultural Techniques: Vismann and Simondon’. [Paper presented at Cultural Techniques of Law.] University of Helsinki, Finland, January 2024 (with Connal Parsley)

‘Technē, Prefiguration, and Design in Bernard Stiegler’. [Paper presented at the Budapest Workshop on Philosophy and Technology]. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary, November-December 2023

‘Technics, Law, and Decisions: An Organological Approach to Decision-Making’. [Paper presented at Technopolitics: Charting the Unknown, part of panel “Artificial Intelligence, Law and Ethics”]. University of Coimbra, Portugal, February 2023

‘Organology of Legal Judgment’. [Paper presented at Critical Legal Conference, part of panel “Speculative Data Ecologies”]. University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway, August-September 2022

‘Technics, Law and Justice in Stiegler’. [Paper presented at Law, Technology and the Human, part of a panel “Senses of Law in Stiegler” (panel co-organised with Ben Turner)]. University of Kent, Canterbury, April 2022

‘Rhythms of Everyday Life in Plato’s Laws’, [Invited presentation at The Art of Everyday Life Seminar Series, Centre for Media Research.] Ulster University, Jan 2022

‘Rhythm, Reason, & Spirit: Rhythmanalytical Notes on Augustine and Whitehead’. Conference paper presented at the 12th International Whitehead Conference, part of a panel on Whitehead, Continental Philosophy, and Theology.] University of Brasília, August 2019.

‘Stupidity and Study in the Contemporary University’. [Centre for Critical Thought Postgraduate Seminar Series.] University of Kent, Canterbury, October 2017

'Fuck Excellence: Constructing a Joyous Pedagogy'. [Intervention at Joyful Ontologies, hosted by the Social Theory Centre and the Warwick Performance and Politics Network.] University of Warwick, September 2016 (with Hollie Mackenzie).

'Learning, Exchange, and Play III'. [Full day workplayshop event.] University of Kent, Canterbury, September 2016 (with Hollie Mackenzie).

''Change Life! Change Society! These precepts mean nothing without the production of an appropriate space' (Henri Lefebvre)' [Short invitation presented at Rediscovering the Radical: Theatre and Social Change, hosted by Collective Encounters and the Department of Applied Theatre at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts with Unity Theatre.] Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, September 2016.

'What's Your Story?' [Alternative learning space installed at Gregynog Ideas Lab V Summer School. Part of seminar series on '(Un)making the Neoliberal Subject'.] Newtown, Wales, July 2016 (with Phil Gaydon and Erzsébet Strausz).

'Ontologies of Transformation: Three Articulations of Creative Practice' [Conference paper presented at Critical Edge Alliance (CEA) Conference Innovative and Critical Approaches to Higher Education in the 21st Century. Part of panel on 'Rethinking Progressive Education in a Neoliberal World'.] Roskilde University, June 2016 (with Erzsébet Strausz and Joel Lazarus).

'Popular Culture as Pedagogy: Breaking Bad, Neoliberalism, and Freedom' [Conference paper presented at the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS) hosted by the European International Studies Association. Part of panel stream 'Popular Culture and World Politics: Time, Identity, Effect, Affect'.] University of Tübingen, April 2016 (with Conor Crummey).

'The Classroom as a Space of Encounters: Doing Pedagogy Differently' [Conference paper and film screening. Presented at Undisciplined Environments: International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology, hosted by ENTITLE. Part of panel on 'The Affective in Political Ecologies: Arts as Ways to Cultivate Resistances'.] Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, March 2016 (with Hollie Mackenzie).

'Learning, Exchange, and Play II' [Conference long installation organised for Transforming Moments: Dissonance, Liminality and Action as Learning Experiences.] University of Kent, Canterbury, January 2016 (with Hollie Mackenzie).

'Towards a Deleuzian Onto-Pedagogy of Difference' [Conference paper and film screening. Presented at Social Class in the 21st Century, hosted by the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies. Part of panel on 'The Neoliberal University: Gender, Class & Sexuality'.] University of Amsterdam, October 2015 (with Hollie Mackenzie).

'Learning, Exchange and Play: Practicing a Deleuzian Pedagogy' [Workshop organised for Techniques of Art and Protest, hosted by the PLANK Research Network.] King's College London, September 2015 (with Hollie Mackenzie and Dr Iain MacKenzie).

'Rethinking Reciprocity' [Conference paper presented at the Warwick Graduate Conference in Legal and Political Theory. Part of panel on 'Global Justice'.] University of Warwick, February 2015.

'The Academic, Ethics, and Power' [Conference paper presented at Engaging Foucault, hosted by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. Panel on 'Refiguring the Intellectual'.] University of Belgrade, December 2014.

'What is the University today? A Genealogy and Critique' [Conference paper presented at Protest, hosted by the Glasgow College of Arts. Panel on 'Youth in Revolt'.] University of Glasgow, May 2014.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Kent Law School at the University of Kent, Canterbury, working with Dr Connal Parsley on his UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) project: 'The Future of Good Decisions: An Evolutionary Approach to Human-AI Government Administrative Decision-Making’.

I am an early career researcher with particular interests and expertise in the following:

Political and legal theory
French theory and Continental Philosophy (e.g. Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Stiegler)
Rhythmanalysis & rhythmology
Philosophy of technology
Process philosophy & philosophy of time
Critical and experimental approaches to policy
Critical and experimental pedagogy + pedagogical theory

I have worked as a lecturer in the University of Strathclyde (in the Law School) and King’s College London (in the Department of Liberal Arts). My alma matter include Queen’s University Belfast, the University of Warwick, BPP University, and the University of Kent.

I regularly peer review across philosophy, political theory, legal theory, philosophy of technology, educational philosophy, amongst other areas. I am on the editorial board as part of the research team for AI & Society, a member of the International Programme Committee for the Budapest Workshop on Philosophy and Technology, and an Advisory Board Member of Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture.