Events
Trans Awareness Training (Online)
This session provides a conversational, non-judgmental space to increase confidence and familiarity around trans identities and rights, and to learn how to create a positive experience for trans students and staff in higher education. It will cover the basics of trans identities and related terminology alongside practical aspects of trans incl..
Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind
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 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
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..