Speculative Machines and Us
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Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' https://speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell https://tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics
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Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
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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
🧐 Explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications.
speculativemachines.co.uk
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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
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
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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
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/...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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/...
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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
🎧🚶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
September 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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
🎧🚶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...
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…
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September 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Interview – Are You A Software Update? - Speculative Machines and Us speculativemachines.co.uk/news-item/19...
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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
aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4
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...
aksioma.org
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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
aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4
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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
🧐 Explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications.
speculativemachines.co.uk
Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us
Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
speculativemachines.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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
🧐 Explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications.
speculativemachines.co.uk
Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us
Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
speculativemachines.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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
🧐 Explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications.
speculativemachines.co.uk
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Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].
Have you covered voice actors yet? I’ve been horrified to find that even reputable outlets like @propublica.org are using noa’s AI narration in their articles—Which was advertised as such until very recently when noa’s AI project label disappeared. It’s vile. noa doesnt disclose AI on their site
Noa | News Over Audio
Understand the news with audio articles from The NYTimes, FT, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review & more. Become ‘Warren Buffett smart’ with our learning-focused Series, covering hundreds of time...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].
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Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?
Shock university ‘merger’ announced
The Universities of Kent and Greenwich are set to ‘merge’ in a shock move affecting thousands of staff and students.
www.kentonline.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?
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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...
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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
emilyehoyle.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...
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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...
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...
July 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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...
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...
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Voice actors push back as AI threatens dubbing industry reut.rs/3IQQLBu
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.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Voice actors push back as AI threatens dubbing industry reut.rs/3IQQLBu
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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!
July 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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!
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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
Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School
www.sthvschool.org
July 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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
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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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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...
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July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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....
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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...
⚡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...
Automating Everyday Life
As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.
www.eventbrite.com.au
July 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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...
⚡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...
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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!
We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research!
More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!
July 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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!
We welcome innovative work covering creative methods at ALL stages of research!
More info: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
ISSUE ONE COMING SEPTEMBER 2025!
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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...
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...
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July 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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...
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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
Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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
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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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....
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Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥
The Politics of Feeling with
@benandersongeog.bsky.social
comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social
@benandersongeog.bsky.social
comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥
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Great to be part of this fab SI of New Formations on 'Affect and Ideology'!
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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
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November 14, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Great to be part of this fab SI of New Formations on 'Affect and Ideology'!
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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Loved attending the morning sessions @speculativemach.bsky.social 👇
(trivia: the back of my head has been beautifully captured below )
(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
July 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Loved attending the morning sessions @speculativemach.bsky.social 👇
(trivia: the back of my head has been beautifully captured below )
(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
July 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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