Helen Hester

Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment - Salvage Femininity, Technologies, Work In an advert for Recognition Equipment in 1966, a young woman with a charming smile places an arm around her male colleague’s shoulder, and rests her head gently again...

Thank you @v21.bsky.social! That piece is an excerpt of this longer essay I wrote for Salvage, if you're interested: salvage.zone/technically-...

Postgraduate open evening | University of West London Our open evenings give you the opportunity to learn more about studying a postgraduate degree at the University of West London.

If you, or someone you know, might be interested in studying for an MA, please do come along to the UWL PG open evening on November 19. I'll be there to talk about the MA Digital Media, Culture and Economy, funding options, research degrees, UWL in general... www.uwl.ac.uk/whats-on/pos...

On Thursday, I'll be in conversation with Alyssa Battistoni at the launch of her brilliant new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Full details here: housmans.com/event/book-l...

Come along and ask some questions!

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Had a joyous (and surprisingly moving) time at this. Rare to be offered this kind of opportunity to look back and celebrate. So, so lucky to have had @reproutopia.bsky.social there to reflect with me, so sharp and so insightful and so interesting and so effortlessly charismatic!

The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World

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Xenofeminismo y cultura digital: Una entrevista con Helen Hester. Por Laia Marsal Ferret - nosolocine “El feminismo debe construir los futuros que la tecnología nos ofrece, no esperar a que lleguen” Hel

“El feminismo debe construir los futuros que la tecnología nos ofrece, no esperar a que lleguen” Helen Hester, filósofa, referente del tecnofeminismo, la voz más influyentes sobre la intersección entre tecnología, feminismo y cultura.
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Thank you Laia!

Can't believe it's been a decade...

Thank you so much! It's going to be a busy, busy semester

Phwoar, check out the reading lists for my new modules:

'Political Economy of Emerging Technologies' rl.talis.com/3/uwl/lists/...

'Labour in an Age of Platform Capitalism'
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UWL's MA in Digital Media, Culture and Economy launches next month & I'm so excited about it!!!

Looking forward to the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development at the end of the month, where I'll be giving a keynote talk on AI slop and discovery collapse.

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Oh, and the political economy of pronatalism, via Silicon Valley investment in the reproductive bioeconomy.

I think it will be recorded!

It's about bronatalism, post-natural sex, reproductive futurism, fathering vs. mothering (in a more-than-gendered sense), transhumanist transphobia and the portfolio approach to baby-making.

Public Lectures of Helen Hester and Nicolas Bourriaud 7:30-9:30pm Helen Hester (public lecture) Nicolas Bourriaud (public lecture)

Parisian comrades! I'll be at the Sorbonne on Tuesday talking about 'Women as Wetware? On the Fertile Imaginaries of Silicon Valley'

7.30pm, September 2, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Bachelard Amphitheater of the Sorbonne, FREE.

www.eventbrite.fr/e/public-lec...

Geoffrey Hinton Says AI Needs Maternal Instincts. Here’s What It Takes To give AI maternal instincts, AI's godfather, Geoffrey Hinton, must be more God than father. Perhaps we would be better off if it were the other way around?

Large language mother www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...

“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…” – Spectre Journal Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.

😍 Sophie Lewis in conversation with Alva Gotby😍

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I've written to my MP about this, and you should too.

Thank you so much for saying that! I'm very fond of that chapter; it's quite different from the rest of the book in some ways, but I think it gets to the crux of why a post-work perspective is so important.

Oh wow, hope you enjoyed!

La ocultación del trabajo doméstico en las viviendas unifamiliaries de lujo españolas.
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I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Domestic Realism or Something Worse? | Weird Economies Weird Economies (W.E), is a journal, programming space and social experimental site that traces economic imaginaries extraordinary to financial arrangements of our time. W.E takes on an expanded chron...

'Domestic realism or something worse?' New essay on co-living and domestic imaginaries for Weird Economies.

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Fun post from my PhD student Stefan Darling on the gender politics of resisting reproductive labour in the reality TV show 'Mums on Strike'

Some of my essays on post-work domesticities, newly collected and translated into Spanish!

I often think about Simondon’s point that the notion of ‘jobs’ in the sense of social roles distorts our understanding of ‘work’ in the sense of what is actually done in industry. I think it’s probably going to be useful for thinking about the social effects of the coming wave of AI deployment.

Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà - Jacobin Italia Helen Hester e Will Stronge parlano della loro ricerca: come operare nella pratica il rifiuto del lavoro, la riduzione dell'orario, il rapporto con le tecnologie, le prospettive di genere e l'importan...

Post-lavoro, un’utopia di libertà jacobinitalia.it/post-lavoro-...

An interview with myself and @wstronge.bsky.social in Jacobin Italia.

Coming up! I'll be talking about the myths and perils of commercial co-living, as part of Weird Economies' 'Out of Space? London Financescapes' series.

Saturday 24th May, 11-5pm at Pelican House, Bethnal Green. Full details for the series here: weirdeconomies.com/financescape...

Got public luxury on my mind at the moment... See this wonderful, concise post from Phil Jones.