Originally posted on Algocracy and the Transhumanist Project:
My post as research assistant on the Algocracy & Transhumanism project at NUIG has come to an end, and I will shortly be returning to Royal Holloway to finish writing up my PhD. I have really enjoyed the five months I have spent here in Galway – I  have learned a great deal from the workshops I… Continue reading PODCAST: Pip Thornton – Critiquing linguistic capitalism, Google’s ad empire, fake news and poetry

Originally posted on Algocracy and the Transhumanist Project:
Back in March I co-curated a Passengerfilms event in London which used Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina to provoke a panel discussion about what it means to ‘be human’ in a world in which the digitally -or algorithmically – processed ‘virtual’ is increasingly experienced in the actualities of everyday life. I wrote a post on my… Continue reading Being Human | Human Being: a panel discussion of Ex Machina

Originally posted on Algocracy and the Transhumanist Project:
I started work as the research assistant on the Algocracy and Transhumanism project in September, and John has invited me to record a short podcast about some of my own PhD research on Language in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction. You download the podcast here or listen below. The podcast relates to a project called {poem}.py, which… Continue reading A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism: a short podcast from Pip Thornton

Curating (in)security: Unsettling Geographies of Cyberspace Call for Papers AAG 2017 Boston (April 5-9, 2017) In calling for the unsettling of current theorisation and practice, this session intends to initiate an exploration of the contributions geography can bring to cybersecurity and space. This is an attempt to move away from the dominant discourses around conflict and state prevalent in international relations, politics, computer science and … Continue reading Curating (in)security: Unsettling Geographies of Cyberspace CfP AAG 2017

Mike Duggan and I have convened a workshop which will take place in London tomorrow (9th June 2016) on the subject of Living with Algorithms. A couple of people have been unable to make it at short notice, which is a huge shame, but it now gives me the opportunity to present and get feedback on a new project I’ve been working on called {poem}.py. … Continue reading Living with Algorithms workshop

Originally posted on feminist academic collective:
Tiina Vaittinen & Saara Särmä We have just finished teaching a course on feminist perspectives on global politics at the University of Tampere, with an international group of students with different disciplinary backgrounds. During the course, we introduced the students to a wide range of readings on feminist IR, and towards the end of the course Saara gave them a creative… Continue reading Feminist perspectives on global politics, in poems