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23 September 2025

Interview – Are You A Software Update?

Carolyn Pedwell gave an interview as part of the Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana Tactics & Practice podcast series, ‘Are you a Software Update’.

18 August 2025

Symposium – Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and futures of AI

The international symposium, 'Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI', was held at Lancaster University's Imagination Lab on 17th July 2025.

The Intuitive and the Counter-Intuitive: AI and the affective ideologies of common sense (2024)

This article explores how the transatlantic post-war quest to engineer common sense via computational means has profoundly shaped both the social logics of machine learning systems and the sensorial politics of everyday knowledge production.

Intuition Stories

Stories for teaching, learning, and research: From electric brains to generative AI, explore intuition in digital computing histories through 40 key concepts, initiatives, milestones, systems, and publications. Uncover how questions about sensing, thinking, and speculating animate current debates on machine intelligence.

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Janez Fakin Janša @janez-fakin-jansa.bsky.social 4 weeks

The 4th episode of tactics&practice #AYASU? [podcast] is out!

🎧🚶https://aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4

What if real #change begins not with rupture, but with the quiet force of #collective habits and subtle shifts?

w/ Carolyn Pedwell and Neja Berger
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Speculative Machines and Us @speculativemach.bsky.social 4 weeks

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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social 1 month

It was enlivening to have a conversation with Neja Berger as part of Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana)'s 'Are you a Software Update' podcast series:

aksioma.org/ayasu-ep4

Interview – Are You A Software Update?

Symposium – Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and futures of AI

The Intuitive and the Counter-Intuitive: AI and the affective ideologies of common sense (2024)

Intuition Stories

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Governance

Initiatives

Innovations

Milestones

Ethics

Culture

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