More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

I'm super excited to be a Co-Investigator on our new AHRC BRAID-funded project 'Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics, and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue', led by the wonderful Delphine Grass at Lancaster University! ✨🐋🤖

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐 Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l... @uclasamueli.bsky.social

ICYMI: Carolyn Pedwell, 'Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory' - reviews an outstanding book offering a new history of cybernetics and digital media with far-reaching epistemological and ethical implications. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The 4th episode of tactics&practice #AYASU? [podcast] is out! 🎧🚶https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4 What if real #change begins not with rupture, but with the quiet force of #collective habits and subtle shifts? w/ Carolyn Pedwell and Neja Berger

Interview – Are You A Software Update? - Speculative Machines and Us speculativemachines.co.uk/news-item/19...

It was enlivening to have a conversation with Neja Berger as part of Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana)'s 'Are you a Software Update' podcast series: aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4

Congratulations @carolynpedwell.bsky.social! Such a fantastic project & site

Excited to launch our NEW PROJECT WEBSITE: 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures'! 🤖 ⚡ 🧐 Explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications. speculativemachines.co.uk

Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].

Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?

I have a ✨ new ✨ section on my SubStack called Future Relics. This month I discuss Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the @speculativemach.bsky.social event, the @britsoci.bsky.social materialist workshop and more... emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...

My follow-up article on synthesis in gen AI is now out 💥💥💥   Responding to @shanedenson.bsky.social response, I expand on my transcendental argument about LLMs and develop the case for a structuralist reading of Kantian synthesis. Available Open Access ⬇️ journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

Voice actors push back as AI threatens dubbing industry reut.rs/3IQQLBu

Excited to be convening this symposium with @martinsavransky.bsky.social, inviting encounters with what it means to take ‘the planetary condition’ seriously, and to rethink health in relation to it. Two big days of ideas and provocations ahead!

The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Why is intuition is a generative concept and lens to unfold the affective genealogies of human-machine relations in post-war transatlantic cultures? 🤖✨👾 A key output for the @britishacademy.bsky.social 'Speculative Machines and Us' project! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join me, Joel Stern, and Nic Carah for what's shaping up to be a stimulating seminar on Automating Everyday Life! ⚡Wed 30 July, 3 - 5pm AEST ⚡Register for zoom details I'll be talking about generative AI and the problem if representing political violence. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

The Journal of Creative Research Methods is accepting submissions for our second issue (deadline: October 2025). We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research! More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Creative Film, Television and Digital Media Production at University of Northampton - School of Culture and the Creative Industries (CCI) #AcademicJobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV494/l...

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1). Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Why is intuition is a generative concept and lens to unfold the affective genealogies of human-machine relations in post-war transatlantic cultures? 🤖✨👾 A key output for the @britishacademy.bsky.social 'Speculative Machines and Us' project! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥

Great to be part of this fab SI of New Formations on 'Affect and Ideology'! journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

Loved attending the morning sessions @speculativemach.bsky.social 👇 (trivia: the back of my head has been beautifully captured below )

A wonderful day on 17th July at the British Academy symposium, 'Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI', at Lancaster University! 🤖 ✨ 👾 The event was co-hosted by Lancaster's Centre for Sciences Studies, Imagination Lancaster, and the Data Science Institute. tinyurl.com/2s4fnr88

Loved this morning's sessions 👇 Excellent stuff!! (sorry I can't stay for post-lunch talks) I learned LOADS !!!

Had a mind bending day at The Speculative Machines and Us event today at Lancaster Uni. Thank you to @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for such an awespiring event of generative discussions. I'm interested in the disorientation of looking back to understand our futures. wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

✨ Capacious Spotlight: “I’m training for a feeling I don’t have yet.” What if #LaurenBerlant 's writing is already whispering to our algorithms? In the 2024 issue, Carolyn Pedwell & Eve Stowe ask how genre, infrastructure, and affect pulse through our digital networks. doi.org/10.22387/CAP...

Final registration call for the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded symposium, 'Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI', @lancasteruni.bsky.social on 17 July! 💥🤖 FULL PROGRAMME, ABSTRACTS AND BIOS here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi... Register now here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

A few spaces left for 'Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI' at Lancaster University on Thursday 17th July. 🤖 ✨ See FULL PROGRAMME here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...

The symposium “Speculative Machines and Us” is next week 🤖📠👾💻 Thank you to @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for the invitation. Join us at @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Thursday 17 July 2025 📆 The abstract for my talk is below ⬇️

A fantastic-looking event right here 👇 All booked and looking forward!