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Laia Marsal @laiamarsal.bsky.social · 4d

“El feminismo debe construir los futuros que la tecnología nos ofrece, no esperar a que lleguen” Helen Hester, filósofa, referente del tecnofeminismo, la voz más influyentes sobre la intersección entre tecnología, feminismo y cultura.
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Xenofeminismo y cultura digital: Una entrevista con Helen Hester. Por Laia Marsal Ferret - nosolocine

“El feminismo debe construir los futuros que la tecnología nos ofrece, no esperar a que lleguen” Hel

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Laia!

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · 9d

Can't believe it's been a decade...

The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · 9d

event: xenofeminism @ 10 years

tues 7th oct, 18:30 (london)

@reproutopia.bsky.social | @helenhester.bsky.social

tickets: buff.ly/kHeUXUN

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you so much! It's going to be a busy, busy semester

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · 27d

Phwoar, check out the reading lists for my new modules:

'Political Economy of Emerging Technologies' rl.talis.com/3/uwl/lists/...

'Labour in an Age of Platform Capitalism'
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UWL's MA in Digital Media, Culture and Economy launches next month & I'm so excited about it!!!

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development at the end of the month, where I'll be giving a keynote talk on AI slop and discovery collapse.

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El Ministerio de Cultura y UNESCO presentan Mondiacult 2025, la conferencia mundial que reunirá en Barcelona a más de 150 ministros de Cultura del mundo

El ministro de Cultura y el director general de Cultura de la UNESCO han presentado los detalles de este foro ministerial internacional sobre políticas culturales y desarrollo sostenible, que por primera vez acoge España.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh, and the political economy of pronatalism, via Silicon Valley investment in the reproductive bioeconomy.

Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 31

I think it will be recorded!

Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's about bronatalism, post-natural sex, reproductive futurism, fathering vs. mothering (in a more-than-gendered sense), transhumanist transphobia and the portfolio approach to baby-making.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 31

Parisian comrades! I'll be at the Sorbonne on Tuesday talking about 'Women as Wetware? On the Fertile Imaginaries of Silicon Valley'

7.30pm, September 2, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Bachelard Amphitheater of the Sorbonne, FREE.

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Public Lectures of Helen Hester and Nicolas Bourriaud

7:30-9:30pm Helen Hester (public lecture) Nicolas Bourriaud (public lecture)

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 28

Large language mother www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...

Geoffrey Hinton Says AI Needs Maternal Instincts. Here’s What It Takes

To give AI maternal instincts, AI's godfather, Geoffrey Hinton, must be more God than father. Perhaps we would be better off if it were the other way around?

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 26

😍 Sophie Lewis in conversation with Alva Gotby😍

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“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…” – Spectre Journal

Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 23

I've written to my MP about this, and you should too.

hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Aug 21

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK to evacuate nine Gaza students with university scholarships

Move follows months of pressure from MPs, academics and campaigners, with dozens of other students still stranded

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you so much for saying that! I'm very fond of that chapter; it's quite different from the rest of the book in some ways, but I think it gets to the crux of why a post-work perspective is so important.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Aug 17

Oh wow, hope you enjoyed!

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David García-Asenjo @dgllana.bsky.social · Aug 5

La ocultación del trabajo doméstico en las viviendas unifamiliaries de lujo españolas.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · Jul 19

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza

Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Jul 8

'Domestic realism or something worse?' New essay on co-living and domestic imaginaries for Weird Economies.

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Domestic Realism or Something Worse? | Weird Economies

Weird Economies (W.E), is a journal, programming space and social experimental site that traces economic imaginaries extraordinary to financial arrangements of our time. W.E takes on an expanded chron...

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fun post from my PhD student Stefan Darling on the gender politics of resisting reproductive labour in the reality TV show 'Mums on Strike'

The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW on the Feminist Futures Programme blog 🚨

Casting a critical eye on the recent reality TV series, Stefan Darling analyses the gender politics of reproductive labour at play in 'Mums on Strike' from a post-work perspective 👇

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Mums on Strike: the post-work politics of reality TV

Casting a critical eye on the recent reality TV series, Stefan Darling analyses the gender politics of reproductive labour at play in 'Mums on Strike' from a post-work perspective.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · Jun 30

Some of my essays on post-work domesticities, newly collected and translated into Spanish!

Traficantes de sueños Librería @traficantes.bsky.social · Jun 29

#Novedad #Bartlebooth

@helenhester.bsky.social mira al corazón de lo doméstico para imaginar lo impensable: una arquitectura diseñada para abolirlo o, al menos, minimizarlo, y una tecnología que cuide, cuestione y nos libere de las cargas del trabajo doméstico.

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Pete Wolfendale @deontologistics.bsky.social · Jun 8

I often think about Simondon’s point that the notion of ‘jobs’ in the sense of social roles distorts our understanding of ‘work’ in the sense of what is actually done in industry. I think it’s probably going to be useful for thinking about the social effects of the coming wave of AI deployment.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · May 24

Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà jacobinitalia.it/post-lavoro-...

An interview with myself and @wstronge.bsky.social in Jacobin Italia.

Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà - Jacobin Italia

Helen Hester e Will Stronge parlano della loro ricerca: come operare nella pratica il rifiuto del lavoro, la riduzione dell'orario, il rapporto con le tecnologie, le prospettive di genere e l'importan...

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · May 20

Coming up! I'll be talking about the myths and perils of commercial co-living, as part of Weird Economies' 'Out of Space? London Financescapes' series.

Saturday 24th May, 11-5pm at Pelican House, Bethnal Green. Full details for the series here: weirdeconomies.com/financescape...

London | Weird Economies

London is a city where international capital returns to roost. Within sight of the radiant behemoths of the financial sector, some of the most deprived communities in the country gaze upon the materia...

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · May 18

Got public luxury on my mind at the moment... See this wonderful, concise post from Phil Jones.

The Autonomy Institute @autonomy-institute.bsky.social · Apr 30

What could public luxury look like in practice? 💭

Building on work by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, Phil Jones envisages a world of shared tools, collective kitchens, ambitious infrastructure, and aesthetic freedom 📈

Out now on the Autonomy blog for our #UBS Hub 👇

Public Luxury in practice

In his second blog for our UBS Hub, Phil Jones expands upon what 'public luxury' might look in terms of practical policy.

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · May 16

BOOK LAUNCH! London, July 3.

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