Lectures and seminars

“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs

13:00 - 15:00 25 February 2027
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…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2027
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…

A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism

13:00 - 15:00 20 April 2027
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…

Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics

13:00 - 15:00 27 May 2027
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…

Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future

13:00 - 15:00 24 June 2027
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…

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