School of Critical Studies

An online conference. The imagination has a long and complex trajectory as a human faculty, but in this epoch of planetary-scale computation and the explosion of synthetic intelligence, genomic engineering, and robotics it has been decentered and accelerated in compelling and disconcerting...

What does it mean to say that we contain multitudes? Most of us experience at least some variance in self-recognition during the course of our lives, perhaps feeling that we are different people at different times or in different situations. The aim of this paper is to make sense of this...

2022 saw an explosion of text to image synthesis Artificial Intelligence (AI) models released into public domain on the web. Vastly outperforming prior implementations of ‘computational creativity’, these models are best understood as enabling users to explore boundaries within...

How Lacan’s encounter with modern number theory through the work of Cantor and Gödel, and its consequences for the development of computing in the work of Alan Turing, helped transform his thinking about ‘gender,’ or sexuation. And how we might think past the phallogocentrism...

This talk departs from a simple question: What is planetary space? The hypothesis is that if we are to posit “the planetary” as an index for paradigmatic socio-historical transformation (and not merely a new nomenclature), we require commensurate spatiotemporal figurations to embed...