Stephen Hughes
@stephenhues.bsky.social
I study people's emotional investments in science and technology | STS, Science Communication & Psychoanalysis at University College London | 🇮🇪
No way! Keanu Reeves liked my post on Twitter from 2 years ago!!!! Never knew he was into sociotechnical imaginaries!
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
No way! Keanu Reeves liked my post on Twitter from 2 years ago!!!! Never knew he was into sociotechnical imaginaries!
Apt: "One effect of writing is that one learns what one thinks" (C Fred Alford).
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Apt: "One effect of writing is that one learns what one thinks" (C Fred Alford).
Obsessed with this painting of a vision of Joan of Arc by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel, a children's book illustrator. Nice high res version available at www.nga.gov/artworks/195...
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Obsessed with this painting of a vision of Joan of Arc by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel, a children's book illustrator. Nice high res version available at www.nga.gov/artworks/195...
At the amazing Haptic Trouble conference at Sorbonne Nouvelle. Presenting a paper today - Lonely Dreams of Touch Without a Body - where I discuss fantasies about touchless tech via Derrida and Klein. But the main news is that Paris knows how to cater for academics. See pic for hard evidence.
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
At the amazing Haptic Trouble conference at Sorbonne Nouvelle. Presenting a paper today - Lonely Dreams of Touch Without a Body - where I discuss fantasies about touchless tech via Derrida and Klein. But the main news is that Paris knows how to cater for academics. See pic for hard evidence.
Drafts of all chapters for Affect, Emotion and Feeling in Science Communication are now complete. They still need quite a bit of work but here’s an overview of where things currently stand (a thread):
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Drafts of all chapters for Affect, Emotion and Feeling in Science Communication are now complete. They still need quite a bit of work but here’s an overview of where things currently stand (a thread):
Everything about this headline is so potently cringey. Like a frickin Brass Eye sketch.
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Everything about this headline is so potently cringey. Like a frickin Brass Eye sketch.
Great paper by @felicitycallard.bsky.social & Stan Papoulias which reasserts that the value of psychoanalysis is its confrontation of our capacity for creativity AND destruction and the inescapable role that fantasy plays in navigating that conflict - mh-bmj-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/content/45/2...
August 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Great paper by @felicitycallard.bsky.social & Stan Papoulias which reasserts that the value of psychoanalysis is its confrontation of our capacity for creativity AND destruction and the inescapable role that fantasy plays in navigating that conflict - mh-bmj-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/content/45/2...
Without access to playful creativity in our reflection, discourses of responsibility / ethics can easily descend into organised nonsense and chaos [quote here from Winnicott].
July 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Without access to playful creativity in our reflection, discourses of responsibility / ethics can easily descend into organised nonsense and chaos [quote here from Winnicott].
Better to have all the fire alarms for the building in the one place
June 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Better to have all the fire alarms for the building in the one place
Can't get over how bad NCAD's homepage is. Looks like a local classified ads website.
May 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Can't get over how bad NCAD's homepage is. Looks like a local classified ads website.
Nobody:
Not a single person on planet E:
The Central line:
Not a single person on planet E:
The Central line:
May 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Nobody:
Not a single person on planet E:
The Central line:
Not a single person on planet E:
The Central line:
Imagine, aged 3, you innocently draw a giraffe penis for your dad only for it to end up in the hands of Freud where it becomes a central brick in the edifice of psychoanalysis.
April 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Imagine, aged 3, you innocently draw a giraffe penis for your dad only for it to end up in the hands of Freud where it becomes a central brick in the edifice of psychoanalysis.
Just finished @boddice.bsky.social and Mark Smith's excellent Emotion, Sense, Experience. Wonderfully illuminates how densely collapsed concepts of emotions are in historiography & neuroscience. Powerfully indicates how we might unpack the vast expanses of meaning in human affective experience.
April 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just finished @boddice.bsky.social and Mark Smith's excellent Emotion, Sense, Experience. Wonderfully illuminates how densely collapsed concepts of emotions are in historiography & neuroscience. Powerfully indicates how we might unpack the vast expanses of meaning in human affective experience.
The UK does have it's own public culture. Shouting commands and prohibitions at you.
March 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The UK does have it's own public culture. Shouting commands and prohibitions at you.
Neuroscience: We can make sense of the brain!
Also Neuroscience:
Also Neuroscience:
March 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Neuroscience: We can make sense of the brain!
Also Neuroscience:
Also Neuroscience:
Yes. So obvious and yet still has to be argued. Particularly in STS where this is an absolutely gaping hole where a concept of the self/subjectivity should be (and not in the Lacanian sense of a lack, an absence, a fissure lol lol lol).
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Yes. So obvious and yet still has to be argued. Particularly in STS where this is an absolutely gaping hole where a concept of the self/subjectivity should be (and not in the Lacanian sense of a lack, an absence, a fissure lol lol lol).
Sometimes the conspiracy theories are very inventive and creative: "flying syringes"
February 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sometimes the conspiracy theories are very inventive and creative: "flying syringes"
Goodbye to this incredible view 💔
February 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Goodbye to this incredible view 💔
These news features are such an interesting genre. Not really serious, not completely humorous, not satirical either. Demonstrates that the media isn't really able to make sense of the public's ambivalent feelings towards AI.
December 31, 2024 at 4:35 PM
These news features are such an interesting genre. Not really serious, not completely humorous, not satirical either. Demonstrates that the media isn't really able to make sense of the public's ambivalent feelings towards AI.
On a bridge over N11 in Wicklow ❤️
December 26, 2024 at 2:51 PM
On a bridge over N11 in Wicklow ❤️
Interesting how the sparkle emoji ✨ is being used to represent AI (pic is from zoom). Clear association between AI and things magically appearing from nowhere.
November 22, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Interesting how the sparkle emoji ✨ is being used to represent AI (pic is from zoom). Clear association between AI and things magically appearing from nowhere.
Sounds like you are intellectually incurious about how terrible your classes are. Imagine being a student subjected to this shite - I'd definitely be seeking refuge in my phone.
November 19, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Sounds like you are intellectually incurious about how terrible your classes are. Imagine being a student subjected to this shite - I'd definitely be seeking refuge in my phone.