A discussion between myself and McKenzie Wark on raving, hacking, and public luxury. Moderated by Feda Baeza. Pretty sure I gained aura points by just being in the virtual room tbh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SRC...
Five years of the Feminist Futures Programme! Thank you so much to everybody @autonomy-institute.bsky.social for half a decade of hard work. Lots coming up in 2026, too.
Catch our selective retrospective here: autonomy.work/wp-content/u....
Thank you @v21.bsky.social! That piece is an excerpt of this longer essay I wrote for Salvage, if you're interested: salvage.zone/technically-...
If you, or someone you know, might be interested in studying for an MA, please do come along to the UWL PG open evening on November 19. I'll be there to talk about the MA Digital Media, Culture and Economy, funding options, research degrees, UWL in general... www.uwl.ac.uk/whats-on/pos...
On Thursday, I'll be in conversation with Alyssa Battistoni at the launch of her brilliant new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Full details here: housmans.com/event/book-l...
Come along and ask some questions!
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Had a joyous (and surprisingly moving) time at this. Rare to be offered this kind of opportunity to look back and celebrate. So, so lucky to have had @reproutopia.bsky.social there to reflect with me, so sharp and so insightful and so interesting and so effortlessly charismatic!
Im confident im gonna land on my feet but its pretty stressful. If you were planning to buy or pre-order my book anyway, if you do it through my Bookshop affiliate link below I get a few bucks now. Everything helps!
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“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.
www.nosolocine.net/xenofeminism...
@helenhester.bsky.social
Thank you Laia!
Can't believe it's been a decade...
Thank you so much! It's going to be a busy, busy semester
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'
rl.talis.com/3/uwl/lists/...
UWL's MA in Digital Media, Culture and Economy launches next month & I'm so excited about it!!!
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.
mondiacult.cultura.gob.es/noticias/not...
Oh, and the political economy of pronatalism, via Silicon Valley investment in the reproductive bioeconomy.
I think it will be recorded!
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.
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.
www.eventbrite.fr/e/public-lec...
I've written to my MP about this, and you should too.
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.
Oh wow, hope you enjoyed!
La ocultación del trabajo doméstico en las viviendas unifamiliaries de lujo españolas.
revistascientificas.uspceu.com/constelacion...
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...
'Domestic realism or something worse?' New essay on co-living and domestic imaginaries for Weird Economies.
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
Fun post from my PhD student Stefan Darling on the gender politics of resisting reproductive labour in the reality TV show 'Mums on Strike'
Some of my essays on post-work domesticities, newly collected and translated into Spanish!
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.
