Speculative Machines and Us

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! ✨🐋🤖

How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.

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

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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 Carolyn Pedwell gave an interview as part of the Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Tactics & Practice podcast series, ‘Are you a Software Upda…

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

S5 [Are You A Software Update?] E4: Revolution in the Minor Key [w/Carolyn Pedwell] - Aksioma In a time of live-streamed genocide, it has truly never been more clear that witnessing suffering will not automatically trigger social transformation. If the answer is not in shocking jolts and major...

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

Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures

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 AIKilledMyJob@pm.me.

Shock university ‘merger’ announced The Universities of Kent and Greenwich are set to ‘merge’ in a shock move affecting thousands of staff and students.

Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?

Millennial Cringe, Disorientating AI, and Beasts in the Machine For July's cultural cache I reveal my Tumblr connection to Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In organisation and discuss the power and potentials of storytelling

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 Boris Rehlinger may not turn heads on the streets of Paris, but his voice is instantly recognisable to millions of French filmgoers.

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!

Looks amazing!

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

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

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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...

Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition In the wake of Turing’s ‘universal machine’, this article foregrounds intuition as a generative concept and lens to unfold the affective genealogies of human-machine relations in post-war transatla...

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....

Automating Everyday Life As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.

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 Apply for the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Creative Film, Television and Digital Media Production role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply n...

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...

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

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

Speculative machines and us: more-than-human intuition and the algorithmic condition In the wake of Turing’s ‘universal machine’, this article foregrounds intuition as a generative concept and lens to unfold the affective genealogies of human-machine relations in post-war transatla...

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 💥

The Intuitive and the Counter-Intuitive: AI and the Affective Ideologies of Common Sense - Lawrence Wishart Animating the relationship between affect and ideology in histories of artificial intelligence, this paper explores how the tran

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 )

It's a lovely back of head! Great to se you there Liz!

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 !!!