Events
Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Kate Pickett
The Good Society – And How We Make it A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. This talk helps to show us the way. • How do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need? • How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? • How do we ensure safe..
The gendered half-life of deindustrialization: Industrial masculinities in East and West German shipbuilding
Dr. Nora Mariella Küttel (Institute for Geography, University of Bremen). Chair: Sarah Marie Hall; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B
Rebellion: A film about the Bradford 12 and the need for self-defence [in person]
Join us for a screening of a powerful new documentary about community action against racism. Followed by director Q&A and drinks reception. In 1981, twelve young Asian men in Bradford faced terrorism charges after defending their community from a violent racist skinhead attack. They made petrol bombs for self-defence. Known as the Bradford 12..
The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical f..
“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical f..
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical f..
A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical f..
Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical f..
Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical f..