Dr Emily Hoyle

Frontierland and Open Water In the September edition of Future Relics I spotlight the "immortality bros" who desperately seek deregulation and discuss my yearning to swim

September came and went. This is what I read, listened to and discovered last month: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.

Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

The immortality bros: the new frontiers of health

On my run I listened to this podcast episode. The use of frontier is a key part of their storytelling and it is no coincidence these bros are cosying up to Trump's government as we witness a strengthening of patriarchal power. I discuss all of this in my thesis. open.spotify.com/episode/3J7b...

Body and Horror: Vampires, Aliens, and Nudes For the August edition of Future Relics, I discuss the Jenny Saville Exhibition, a book I am struggling to get into and the new FX Alien: Earth series

Better late than never! My August edition of #FutureRelics is now published 👽
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Are universities for education, or for profit?

Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Episode

Listened to this on my morning run about how in the 1960s women were excluded from long distance running due to false fears it would make them infertile, or worse kill them. A reminder the marathon (and running generally) is a contested site for gender and sex. open.spotify.com/episode/5gi4...

April next year will be running #TheLondonMarathon for Prostate Cancer Research. This charity means a great deal to me. You can read about my motivation at www.justgiving.com/page/emilyrunsthemarathon - this is also the place to donate (thank you!). Wish me luck! @justgiving.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the future undergraduates receiving their #Alevelresults today! ⭐ I hope part of the media coverage includes the savage cuts to university staff and courses across HE that will diminish the exceptional and diverse teaching these undergraduates deserve @ucu.org.uk

Four Men and a Mountain The tech bromance of Jesse Armstrong's Mountainhead (2025) marks a cultural shift

When I first began researching transhumanism it was considered fringe, and I would frequently have to explain what it is and why it is significant. #Mountainhead puts it on full view and pokes fun at it.

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Fortunate to have attended the #JennySaville exhibition at the #NationalPortraitGallery. Her work is kinetic, and in dialogue with the passive nudes of the classical painters. For me, it also emphasised the importance of Gender Studies in a time when Gender Studies courses are being stripped back.

If you are interested in this article by @newyorker.com about the men who are investing in biohacking and longevity technologies so they can live forever you might like my doctoral thesis that explains how the desire for immortality is gender in the making: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

This from the creator Alex Light emphasizes how this new "facial shapewear" from Skims has disturbing historical roots and connotations.

Strings writes, "the phobia about fatness and the preference for thinness have not, principally or historically, been about health. Instead, they have been one way the body has been used to craft and legitimate race, sex, and class hierarchies."

Skims profits off controversy, and I agree with the commentary this so-called "facial shapewear" contributes to the Ozempic culture of slenderness and control of the feminine body. But also it made me think of the book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings.

Millennial Cringe, Disorientating AI, and Beasts in the Machine For July's cultural cache I reveal my Tumblr connection to Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In organisation and discuss the power and potentials of storytelling

I have a ✨ new ✨ section on my SubStack called Future Relics. This month I discuss Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the @speculativemach.bsky.social event, the @britsoci.bsky.social materialist workshop and more...

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Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…

Had a mind bending day at The Speculative Machines and Us event today at Lancaster Uni. Thank you to @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for such an awespiring event of generative discussions. I'm interested in the disorientation of looking back to understand our futures.

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In my most recent Substack I explore @jessearmstrong.bsky.social's #Mountainhead read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...

Thank you Carolyn! Looking forward to seeing you too 😊

Really looking forward to attending this on Thursday 🤖

My thoughts too. The "I need to get out" but staying for X amount of years seemed disingenuous, among other things that I had a hard time believing.

Oh yes, thanks for this. Careless People fell short for me in some ways so this might fill the void.

Sunday and finishing a book 🫶🏻☕

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle. And How AI is Making Music On the Media · Episode

Interesting episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. Guest Ed Zitron exposes how the so-called concerns from the industry about the safety of AI is actual disgenerous marketing and any real concerns should be about the environment damage and harms from misinformation.
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My latest Substack (5 minute read) delves into the tech bromance of Jesse Armstrong's film #Mountainhead 🏔️

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I'm glad Wimbledon gives women's tennis primetime slots as it is just as accelerating as the men's and there is variety in who reaches the final rounds. And like the teenage boy who sat behind me at Wimbledon said "there are a lot more rallies, it is fun to watch the women's." #WTA

Unfortunately today's #WimbledonFinal was hard to watch, you could feel the pressure of the centre court getting to Amanda Anisimova. Iga Swiatek was the better player on the day but it was uncomfortable to see Anisimova so defeated.

I'm a big tennis fan and I was lucky enough to get tickets to #Wimbledon this year through the ballot. I also attend Eastbourne through the #LTA 🎾

Can Replicants Read | Emily Hoyle | Substack Hot takes on power, technology and the cultural imagination. Click to read Can Replicants Read, by Emily Hoyle, a Substack publication. Launched 4 years ago.

I'm currently working on my next Substack that will be dropping into inboxes this weekend. By subscribing you will have first access and you'll support my writing: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho... 🫶🏻

It’s always a good day to email a random academic asking for their pdfs!! PDFs aren’t sitting there to go unread!!