Events
Digital Futures runs a programme of activities across individual themes and pairs or cluster of themes, designed to foster more interdisciplinary work within and across disciplines and themes, and to promote our work to external stakeholders.
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“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs
25 February 2027, 1pm-3pm
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 an.. -
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet
18 March 2027, 1pm-3pm
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 an.. -
A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism
20 April 2027, 1pm-3pm
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 an.. -
Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics
27 May 2027, 1pm-3pm
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 an.. -
Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future
24 June 2027, 1pm-3pm
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 an..