An example of how the practice of witnessing is a powerful tool employed to make us believe in the dominant narrative about the technological future. The imagination is filling in a lot of the gaps here.

Hosting an event with the brilliant author of this fantastic book, The Feminist Art of Walking. Very excited!!! @plutopress.bsky.social

Very excited to announce on the 23rd of March Feminist Movie Monday will be hosting a talk and film screening with Dr Morag Rose.

Limited spaces, register here:
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This event is in aid of Prostate Cancer Research

In my latest piece I discuss what happens when we think about ourselves as hackable: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/going-unde...

New Scientist spotted in the supermarket. Headlines include “how to hack your unconscious” and mind supremacy. How fantastical transhumanism may seem, similar narratives are dominant in popular science.

Inside the secretive Silicon Valley giant that is trying to reshape how the world fights wars Three new books distill Palantir's true vision: an unapologetically nationalistic attitude that sees constant, world-rending conflict in our future.

"The answer for Karp, the high priest of Palantirianism, is obvious: What ought to be built is what makes people safer. What makes people safer is empowering the military, police, and intelligence services. That is his vision of the common good."

This is, AT BEST,so embarrassingly naive

It shows!

Realtime pollution alerts needed on Windermere, campaigners say after boy nearly dies Exclusive: Claire Earley’s son Rex spent six weeks in hospital after contracting E coli from contaminated lake

This makes me so angry. That poor boy and his family. Yes, better monitoring is needed, but that won’t address the causes e.g. weak regulation, lax enforcement, profiteering, and our insane privatised water system. It really doesn’t have to be like this. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Going Under The Skin: A Retrospective on Biohacking How hacking the body devolves into a data-driven desperation to control it

"The terms “optimise” and “upgrade” speaks to this idea of the body as technology as parts can be added and replaced. However, the scar tissue that forms around the implant is a reminder of the constant materiality of embodiment..." Read the rest here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/going-unde...

Whatever happened to the guys who put LED lights in their forearms? 💉 A look at the rise and fall of the fringe biohacking scene, and how the vibe shifts from microchip implants to mainstream self surveillance.

Read "Under the Skin" here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/going-unde...

Been watching @channel4news.bsky.social's #DirtyBusiness with infuriation. We've been paying to be poisoned. Essential watching and a case against privatised water.

Everyday I say I need to write my book proposal.

My next essay will be a result of a 2 hour train journey, a 13 year old laptop and a suitably sized croissant.

I really enjoyed this German spy thriller on Netflix, called Unfamiliar. Honestly just love seeing older actresses in badass roles while being desirable and cool af.

100% of proceeds from these tees will be donated to Prostate Cancer Research. Whether you run 5k or 42 this is for you: everpress.com/sports-outdo... #runningclub

My sleep paralysis demon

Hidden Valley Road by @robertkolker.com deserves a mention on #WorldBookDay. I unashamedly brought it because a Tiktok creator recommended it as one of the best non-fiction books, and he was right. I was deeply moved by this book and I write about it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/stale-beer...

Need, want, must have.

Continuing the revisitation of my Substack posts from last year. This is the one where I confess to being featured on Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...

The British public would have more satisfaction about #UKpolitics and feel the country was improving if our public roads weren't like the surface of the moon. Crater size pot holes are an everyday complaint. Money should be given to councillors to fix our roads and train fares need to be reduced.

Stale Beer and the Brotherhood of Doom For February I reflect on the social life of the techno-apocalypse, my thoughts on the empathetic Hidden Valley Road and how the What Went Wrong podcast captures the magic of movies

The techno-apocalypse feels like a stale-beer after party. My latest post dives into the social bonding behind Nick Land’s "prophecies," the empathetic writing of Robert Kolker, and why I can’t stop listening to the podcast What Went Wrong. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/stale-beer...

Who wants to live forever? “A future that eradicates ageing might also be an unequal future. Thomas Ramge addresses whether longevity is for everyone with cynicism and caution.”

Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com reviews The End of Ageing. @anthempress.bsky.social

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Living Dolls: a distortion of womanhood? Emily Hoyle watches a recent Channel 4 documentary, shown this week on More 4, about men who engage in ‘female masking’ and suggests some of their attitudes may leave much to be desired by trans viewe...

Re-reading my piece I feel it's a strong critique of how the documentary seeks to shock the audience with no exploration of gender and sexuality. Reflecting on it now I wonder how Living Dolls contributed to the coming culture wars. thefword.org.uk/2014/02/livi...

I was reminded of this article I wrote over a decade ago for The F-Word (kind of amazing I found it) about the Channel 4 documentary Living Dolls. I am really grateful to the editors of F-Word who helped shape my early writing. I learnt a lot from them.

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In the depths of tidying I discovered this from the 2019 Intellectual Party. Includes an abstract from my early research. The title was "Under the skin: self-tracking, biohackers and human enhancement" and I used @dalupton.bsky.social's Quantified Self to analyse biohacking and transhumanism.

The Universities’ Doom Spiral – Can Britain avert disaster? Spotify video

Given Kemi Badenoch's farcical comments about "scam" tuition fees and "crap" degrees I'm sharing this podcast episode from @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social about how universities are in a doom spiral. The tory party helped kick universities into a state of collapse.
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She’s Under Here Algonquin Books

In addition to my essay on time ("The Longest Distance"), this month's issue of the Writer's Chronicle also has a short excerpt from She's Under Here. It's about forging documents to assume a new identity.

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Can Replicants Read? | Emily Hoyle | Substack Feminist takes on power, technology and the cultural imagination. Click to read "Can Replicants Read?", by Emily Hoyle, a Substack publication. Launched 4 years ago.

Can Replicants Read? is a deep dive into the messy intersection of tech, culture, and power. I deconstruct the stories we tell about the future and explain why they matter today. If you want sharp, critical analysis that cuts through the AI hype, subscribe and read for free: emilyehoyle.substack.com

"Male Seeds": The Disturbing Pronatalist Logic Behind Epstein’s Vision of The Future How transhumanism fuels the patriarchal desire to treat procreation as a technological tool for engineering eternal life

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Relates to analysis from @emilyehoyle.substack.com regarding transhumanist and pro-natalist imaginaries amongst sections of the Tech Right.

CN: discussion of sexual violence

Grim but useful read on connections between Epstein network and reconfigurations of eugenics and race science by contrarian pundits, scientists and psychologists since the 1990s.