In this paper I argue, through engaging with Albert Camus’ reflection in The Myth of Sisyphus, an uneasy unfolding for digital humans and their laws. But in the unfolding of the digital and its legality, the secure subjectivity that Camus exalted is less then certain. Sisyphus, Camus imaged, had weathered to look like his rock, but he never merges with it. However, rather than the possibility of the joy of the absurd, there is something else.

The modern terror of mundane life that Camus tried to recast, seems intensified and totalised in the digital. Emergent digital legality manifests a Sisyphean closed loop of repeat, return and enclosure, past and future become a blurred undistinguished present. However, transitions to the digital are presenting different relationships of law and time. Modern law, the law forged by the structural violence of positivism and sovereignty, shared this commitment to time. A commitment to chronology that promised an allusion of meaning within a world of essential meaninglessness. Moderns perceived, and lived, in the timescale of past-present-future. Camus clearly saw that modernity and modern life was predicated on tensions in time. Central to Camus’ reading of Sisyphus and his dammed eternal labour, was time. Albert Camus’ reflection in The Myth of Sisyphus presents the absurd, the intrusion of the meaningless and irrational universe into the order and future focus of modern life.

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