An example of how the practice of witnessing is a powerful tool employed to make us believe in the dominant narrative about the technological future. The imagination is filling in a lot of the gaps here.

Hosting an event with the brilliant author of this fantastic book, The Feminist Art of Walking. Very excited!!! @plutopress.bsky.social

Very excited to announce on the 23rd of March Feminist Movie Monday will be hosting a talk and film screening with Dr Morag Rose. Limited spaces, register here: lnkd.in/eGjZMs_Q This event is in aid of Prostate Cancer Research

In my latest piece I discuss what happens when we think about ourselves as hackable: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/going-unde...

New Scientist spotted in the supermarket. Headlines include “how to hack your unconscious” and mind supremacy. How fantastical transhumanism may seem, similar narratives are dominant in popular science.

"The answer for Karp, the high priest of Palantirianism, is obvious: What ought to be built is what makes people safer. What makes people safer is empowering the military, police, and intelligence services. That is his vision of the common good." This is, AT BEST,so embarrassingly naive

It shows!

This makes me so angry. That poor boy and his family. Yes, better monitoring is needed, but that won’t address the causes e.g. weak regulation, lax enforcement, profiteering, and our insane privatised water system. It really doesn’t have to be like this. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"The terms “optimise” and “upgrade” speaks to this idea of the body as technology as parts can be added and replaced. However, the scar tissue that forms around the implant is a reminder of the constant materiality of embodiment..." Read the rest here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/going-unde...

Whatever happened to the guys who put LED lights in their forearms? 💉 A look at the rise and fall of the fringe biohacking scene, and how the vibe shifts from microchip implants to mainstream self surveillance. Read "Under the Skin" here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/going-unde...

Been watching @channel4news.bsky.social's #DirtyBusiness with infuriation. We've been paying to be poisoned. Essential watching and a case against privatised water.

Everyday I say I need to write my book proposal.

My next essay will be a result of a 2 hour train journey, a 13 year old laptop and a suitably sized croissant.

I really enjoyed this German spy thriller on Netflix, called Unfamiliar. Honestly just love seeing older actresses in badass roles while being desirable and cool af.

100% of proceeds from these tees will be donated to Prostate Cancer Research. Whether you run 5k or 42 this is for you: everpress.com/sports-outdo... #runningclub

My sleep paralysis demon

Hidden Valley Road by @robertkolker.com deserves a mention on #WorldBookDay. I unashamedly brought it because a Tiktok creator recommended it as one of the best non-fiction books, and he was right. I was deeply moved by this book and I write about it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/stale-beer...

Need, want, must have.

Continuing the revisitation of my Substack posts from last year. This is the one where I confess to being featured on Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...

The British public would have more satisfaction about #UKpolitics and feel the country was improving if our public roads weren't like the surface of the moon. Crater size pot holes are an everyday complaint. Money should be given to councillors to fix our roads and train fares need to be reduced.

The techno-apocalypse feels like a stale-beer after party. My latest post dives into the social bonding behind Nick Land’s "prophecies," the empathetic writing of Robert Kolker, and why I can’t stop listening to the podcast What Went Wrong. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/stale-beer...

Who wants to live forever? “A future that eradicates ageing might also be an unequal future. Thomas Ramge addresses whether longevity is for everyone with cynicism and caution.” Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com reviews The End of Ageing. @anthempress.bsky.social buff.ly/ttTlzUW

I was reminded of this article I wrote over a decade ago for The F-Word (kind of amazing I found it) about the Channel 4 documentary Living Dolls. I am really grateful to the editors of F-Word who helped shape my early writing. I learnt a lot from them. thefword.org.uk/2014/02/livi...

In the depths of tidying I discovered this from the 2019 Intellectual Party. Includes an abstract from my early research. The title was "Under the skin: self-tracking, biohackers and human enhancement" and I used @dalupton.bsky.social's Quantified Self to analyse biohacking and transhumanism.

Given Kemi Badenoch's farcical comments about "scam" tuition fees and "crap" degrees I'm sharing this podcast episode from @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social about how universities are in a doom spiral. The tory party helped kick universities into a state of collapse. open.spotify.com/episode/3uWt...

In addition to my essay on time ("The Longest Distance"), this month's issue of the Writer's Chronicle also has a short excerpt from She's Under Here. It's about forging documents to assume a new identity. awpwriter.org/TWC/2026-feb...

Can Replicants Read? is a deep dive into the messy intersection of tech, culture, and power. I deconstruct the stories we tell about the future and explain why they matter today. If you want sharp, critical analysis that cuts through the AI hype, subscribe and read for free: emilyehoyle.substack.com

emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds... Relates to analysis from @emilyehoyle.substack.com regarding transhumanist and pro-natalist imaginaries amongst sections of the Tech Right.

CN: discussion of sexual violence Grim but useful read on connections between Epstein network and reconfigurations of eugenics and race science by contrarian pundits, scientists and psychologists since the 1990s.

Through a feminist lens my latest Substack discusses the promise of cryonics. By enforcing a very literal mind/body split, cryonics discards the "abject" corpse to preserve the head in the hope their mind will be revived in the future. 10 minute read: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...

It is my birthday today so I popped into Waterstones as I had a voucher to spend and I picked up Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. A family are the caretakers of a seed bank on small island and during the worst storm in living memory, a stranger washes ashore.

"After reading The End of Ageing, you would be forgiven for believing the dragon is the immortal tech billionaire burning our earthly resources for his own individualistic gain". Read my full review on @thesociologicalreview.org: thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/the-...

Our latest #bookreviews explore artificial intelligence, South Africa’s prisons, seafarers, care, ageing and feminist walking. Read The Sociological Review magazine’s February issue. #OpenAccess. buff.ly/mdRHaCQ

Indignity by @leaypi.bsky.social is one of the announced books on the 2026 @womensprize.bsky.social non-fiction longlist. I loved this book and I wrote about why on my latest Substack: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/the-presen...

I am thrilled to be a contributor to the February issue of The Sociological Review magazine. My review of Thomas Ramge's "The end of ageing: How biotechnology is redefining human life and what it means for us" is now available to read here: thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/the-...

The February 2026 issue of The Sociological Review features Karl von Holdt on activism and the anti-apartheid struggle, plus we look at teachers under pressure, gender perceptions in past societies, copywriters facing the threat of AI and more. Read it here: buff.ly/tyue9Zd

I have curated a bookshop based on my Substack, "Can Replicants Read?". It feels like a natural extension of my newsletter, considering the name. It includes books on tech culture, feminist theory and the books I recommend on Future Relics. What other books should I add? uk.bookshop.org/shop/1991

She's Under Here has been out now since last September, but it still amazes me to encounter it in the wild.

I have a journal called Future Relics and each month I publish what I've been reading, watching, writing or liking. For January's edition I discuss @leaypi.bsky.social's beautiful book Indignity and @karenpalmer.bsky.social's courageous memoir. Read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/the-presen...

As media and cultural studies and gender studies courses continue to be cut and slashed society's critical response to these forms of power are at stake. How does a society reckon with the Epstein Files without the tools to do so?

What caught my attention is how this staging by The Times is an intentional sanitisation of Peter Mandelson through domesticity which is traditionally viewed as feminine. Contrasted against the abject displays of masculinity in the Epstein Files. Understanding gender is understanding culture.

Epstein and Musk aren't just linked in emails, they shared a similar and disturbing vision of the future. I argue we should be understanding the erosion of trans and reproductive rights as a symptom of this vision. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds...

As part of @futurism.com's reporting on Elon Musk's crash out since the latest release of the #EpsteinFiles they note, "Musk reportedly goes around asking a lot of women, some of them his own employees, to receive his sperm and secretly have his babies".

Noam Chomsky being pictured on a private jet with Epstein isn't all that surprising, but wow, what a way to show the world you are just a cardboard cut out of a man pretending to be an anti-capitalist intellectual.

In my latest Substack I discuss the ideologies popular among the elite that often get overlooked in discussion of #Epstein and #TheEpsteinFile. The way I see it, this power operates through the patriarchy. You can read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds...

Adapted from a talk I presented at The University of York this essay discusses the disturbing logic of #pronatalism and it's relationship to the erosion of #reproductiverights. 15 minute read: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds... #techelite #techbros #transhumanism

In an era of anxiety about declining populations, the push for increased birth rates has taken a sharp, ideological turn among the tech elite. Read the latest installment of Can Replicants Read? here: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...

For 2026 Panodime on Tiktok is posting a video every single day of the CEO of ChatGPT, Sam Alterman, saying something insane

Revisiting my Substack posts from this year, starting with Four Men and a Mountain. My review of Jesse Armstrong's film Mountainhead. Short read: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...

I don't want chatgpt, I want to see what dogs dream.