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Welcome to the British Academy-funded project 'Speculative Machines and Us: Intuition, AI, and the Making of Computational Cultures' speculativemachines.co.uk PI Carolyn Pedwell tinyurl.com/4z6m62wz AI/digital/history/affect/politics/ethics

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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Looking forward to being part of this conversation on Wednesday 8th July!
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It was great to do this interview for a special issue of Moment Journal on "The Spirit of the Time and Emotions" with Burcu Senel Alpugan and Gökçe Zeybek Kabakci .... who asked some very thoughtful and quite challenging questions! dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/momen...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Where are we now?? A sociological take on the past year 🤯 🌎 🤖 🎙️ Looking forward to being part of this Sociological Review conversation on 8th July 2026: www.thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year A Conversations event
Join Carolyn Pedwell, Siniša Malešević and Mariam Motamedi Fraser, chaired by Miranda Iossifidis, for a sociological reflection on the major themes and developments of 2026.
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's great to have a chapter in this super-pertinent new collection: 'Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions'! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792005...
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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions
Exploring the influence of AI technologies on theories of reason, cognition, learning, and educationLearning Under Algorithmic Conditions presents twenty-sev...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Looking forward to giving a talk on intuition, computational histories and 'the quantum' as part of the international 'Digital Emotional Governance Seminar Series' in October: ☣️ 🔬 ⚡ 🖥️ 'Quantum Intuitions: Affective Histories of the Future of Computing' events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f6e09e...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Our CFP deadline has been extended to 30th April, please do consider submitting an abstract and do share widely! 🤖🐋⚡️
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
We are excited to share the CFP for the two-day AHRC/BRAID-funded conference, 'Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation', at Lancaster University on October 1-2nd 2026! 🌊🤖🌎🐋 Do share! wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...
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CfP Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract subm…
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17/12/2025
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.
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Reading List – History of the Database
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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! ✨🐋🤖
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UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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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How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 21/10/2025
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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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Interview – Are You A Software Update? - Speculative Machines and Us speculativemachines.co.uk/news-item/19...
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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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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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
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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...
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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Congratulations @carolynpedwell.bsky.social! Such a fantastic project & site
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
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Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at AIKilledMyJob@pm.me.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Major university merger announced. The start of a wave?
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Shock university ‘merger’ announced
The Universities of Kent and Greenwich are set to ‘merge’ in a shock move affecting thousands of staff and students.
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Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com · 30/07/2025
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...
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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
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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/07/2025
Voice actors push back as AI threatens dubbing industry reut.rs/3IQQLBu
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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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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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...
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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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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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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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...
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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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...
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Automating Everyday Life
As everyday life has been digitalised, more and more of the things we do, like and consume are being automated.
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Journal of Creative Research Methods @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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!
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Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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...
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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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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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
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.
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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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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...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Great to be part of this fab SI of New Formations on 'Affect and Ideology'! journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...
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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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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Loved attending the morning sessions @speculativemach.bsky.social 👇 (trivia: the back of my head has been beautifully captured below )
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Loved this morning's sessions 👇 Excellent stuff!! (sorry I can't stay for post-lunch talks) I learned LOADS !!!
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Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com · 17/07/2025
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...
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Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI
We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…
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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
✨ 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...
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What Does Lauren Berlant Teach Us About Networked Affect?
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
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...
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Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI
We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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...
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Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI
We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…
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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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 ⬇️
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A fantastic-looking event right here 👇 All booked and looking forward!
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