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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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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 15d
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.

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Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us
Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social · 10d
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 · 11d
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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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 12d
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:

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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 · 14d
Congratulations @carolynpedwell.bsky.social! Such a fantastic project & site
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 15d
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
Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us
Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · 15d
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
Homepage - Speculative Machines and Us
Intuition, AI and the Making of Computational Cultures
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19d
Actors, performers, audiobook narrators, voice actors — if you have stories please share them at [email protected].
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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 19d
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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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28d
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.
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Dr Emily Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com · Jul 30
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
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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Jul 10
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 ⬇️

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Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 30
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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Kari Lancaster @karilancaster.bsky.social · Jul 30
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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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · Jul 30
Looks amazing!
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · Jul 29
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
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 27
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...
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 · Jul 26
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...
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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · Jul 27
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.

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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 · Jul 27
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 · Jul 27
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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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jul 26
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 · Jul 26
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
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · Jun 8
Top recommendation! Very excited for Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor's new book 💥
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · Jun 8
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
Book cover Goldsmiths Press The Politics of Feeling by Ben Anderson and Anna J Secor
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · Nov 14
Great to be part of this fab SI of New Formations on 'Affect and Ideology'!

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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 · Jul 26
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 · Jul 26
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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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · Jul 26
It's a lovely back of head! Great to se you there Liz!
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social · Jul 26
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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