Staring the future deep in the eyes and challenging everything it seems to promise since 1994. Critical voices on technoscience.
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In the spring of 1994, at a philosophy conference on a run-down modernist campus in the English Midlands, a group of academics, media theorists, artists, hackers, and d.j.s gathered to hear a young professor give a talk at a conference called “Virtual Futures.”
Mar 11
In the 90s, Nick Land developed a cult following for his radical anti-humanism and his wild predictions about the future of technology. For most, Land’s prognostications were easily dismissed. Now his ideas are gaining traction. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/4r…
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15 Mar 2022
Pretty interesting that an obscure group of marginal philosophy academics predicted crypto and DeFi in Warwick, England around 1995.
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3 Nov 2020
Really wonderful to be talking with @harikunzru on the @VirtualFutures conferences and the incredible journeys that began there ...
3 Nov 2020
Novelist @harikunzru recalls his time studying philosophy at @WarwickUni during the mid-90s, and his experience of the @VirtualFutures Conferences - the events where he first met #ManuelDeLanda & @ORLANofficial w/ @livingarchitect & @StelarcStelarc. pushkin.fm/episode/when-we-w…
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3 Nov 2020
Novelist @harikunzru recalls his time studying philosophy at @WarwickUni during the mid-90s, and his experience of the @VirtualFutures Conferences - the events where he first met #ManuelDeLanda & @ORLANofficial w/ @livingarchitect & @StelarcStelarc. pushkin.fm/episode/when-we-w…
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7 Sep 2020
We’ve refreshed the @VirtualFutures Website making it easier to access the archive of video, audio and visual materials related to our historical conferences, recent salons and fiction events.
virtualfutures.co.uk
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15 Aug 2020
Just read another article (by Rebekah Sheldon) claiming the ccru were behind the first Virtual Futures conferences - they were not. I was there - gave a talk at the 1994 conference - and my recall is that it was people like John Broadhurst who made these events happen.
10 Nov 2017
VF Conferences were organised by students under the aegis of the Warwick Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature: Joan Broadhurst, Dan O’Hara, Otto Imken and Eric Cassidy. Article claiming the #CCRU organised the events is revisionist history. theguardian.com/world/2017/m…
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27 Dec 2019
Eye-opening interview with Robin Mackay, director of @urbanomicdotcom, “about CCRU & the importance of jungle to that scene”. Everything you always wanted to know about Mark Fisher, Nick Land, Warwick Uni, Virtual Futures etc but were too afraid to ask! readthis.wtf/writing/towards…
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10 May 2020
Never read K-Punk?💫
All Mark Fisher ebooks are 50% off for this weekend only.
repeaterbooks.com/remoteread…
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13 Apr 2020
youtube.com/watch?v=L37uYJnD… This is part of something which asked really interesting questions @VirtualFutures
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12 Feb 2020
My #scifi story Cinnamoni{com} Unravelling is online alongside mind-blowing stories from other authors. Read by the amazing Penn Smith at last spring's Near-Future Fictions by .@VirtualFutures. Enjoy! buff.ly/31yKjFt #brainhacking #future #flashfiction #sciencefiction
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30 Dec 2019
"If you tell people you’re going to have this super-open, absolutely non-commercial, money-free thing, but it has to survive in this environment that’s based on money, where it has to make money, how does anybody square that circle?" - #JaronLanier
youtu.be/aDRN_dZNJUM
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30 Oct 2019
From Life in Sci-Fi - all three of my @VirtualFutures #sciencefiction film shorts, curated & produced by @OramStephen @VaughanStanger @brifrischu @juleowen @LukeRobertMason - bit.ly/2N0HZRX
#VFFiction #NearFutureFictions
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25 Oct 2019
Check out the hi-def rendition of my @VirtualFutures short #sciencefiction performance Frame Swingers:
bit.ly/FrameSwing
Curated by @OramStephen
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19 Sep 2019
I'm honoured to have my short @VirtualFutures #sciencefiction film #TheMinusFourSequence (produced by @OramStephen @VaughanStanger & @LukeRobertMason) feature in the wonderful @bio_fiction Festival in beautiful Vienna. Congratulations to all the selected filmmakers. @BioFaction
18 Sep 2019
The final selection of films for the 2019 BIO·FICTION festival, taking place 23/24.9. in Vienna, Austria! Gratulations to all selected filmmakers! bio-fiction.com/wp-content/u…
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8 Jul 2019
📺 Watch James Hughes (@CitizenCyborg) in conversation with @ProfSteveFuller on #Transhumanism, #Posthumanism, #NonHuman #Personhood & approaches to risk on the @VirtualFutures Stage at @nesta_uk's @FutureFest. #FutureFest #Future
youtu.be/-zObSYrDBzY
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8 Jul 2019
My conversation with @citizencyborg is now online. I recommend it as a serious discussion of the future politics of humanity. #transhumanism. youtube.com/watch?v=-zObSYrD… Many thanks to @LukeRobertMason and @VirtualFutures for making this possible.
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30 Jun 2019
📺 Watch my interview with @johnhiggs on his fantastic new book 'The Future Starts Here' at @VirtualFutures and learn why it might be the Metamodern Generation that saves us from environmental and societal collapse. youtu.be/s4Vbwaj2l3w
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27 Jun 2019
✨📚 Book Review: Fully Automated Luxury Communism by @AaronBastani & his conversation with @RichardBarbrook at @VirtualFutures. London Student's David Dahlborn explains how histories of the future matter:
#FullyAutomatedLuxuryCommunism #LuxuryCommunism
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