Upcoming Events 2025
JUN
17
Gen AI Ethics, AGI fantasies and the ideologies behind Big Tech ambitions at ‘GEN AI for Learning: UEL at the Forefront of Education Innovation’ conference
JUN
24-27
Beyond Humanism conference – 24th-27th June, University of Paris 8 – Two presentations:
Book Panel on:
(1) Prosthetic Immortalities (U. of Minnesota 2024),
(2) The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism (Bristol UP 2024), and
(3) Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury 2025)
Talk: Play time for the Broligarchy. Normalising hierarchy, exit and scale.
JUL
1-2
MEEET-Lab’s AI Hopes, Fears, and Realities Conference (1-2 July) in Zurich
MEDIA APPEARANCES
- Podcast: The Good Robot : Transhumanist Fantasies with Alexander Thomas
- Podcast: Understanding My Body Through My Mind: ‘Will Transhumanism Change Humanity?
- Podcast: The Dissenter: ‘Alexander Thomas: The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism
- BBC Radio 4, Thinking Allowed, Immortality & Transhumanism
- Cameo Launch Podcast: In the Green Room with Alexander Thomas
- The Conversation: How transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite – podcast
- The A-Z of the Future Podcast
Past Events – 2024
OCT
18
‘Exiting the tangled web of being: transhumanism and the fantasy of techno-transcendence’
Conference: How (not) to Build a BunkerReinvigorating democracy—rejecting AI apocalypticism and resisting the rush to build AGI
The Arendt/Schürmann Symposium at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research,
SEP
26
Book Launch
The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism: Techno-Human Evolution and Advanced Capitalism
University of East London, USS campus
SEP
14
‘I, Human’
Part of the British Science Festival at University House
Great Hall, UEL Stratford Campus
SEP
05
Transhumanism and its Critics
Cape Western University (online)
AUG
07
‘Cosmopolitics, Libertarian and Eugenic fantasies: Transhumanism, the ‘Tescreal Bundle’ and the Development of AGI’
XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome
AUG
07
AI Debate
Panel discussion with Stefan Sorgner, Nicolas Rojas and Juan Jana: Philosophically Enhancing Transhumanism
XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome
AUG
06
Panel discussion with Stefan Sorgner and Tamara Kamatovic: Transhumanism across the Political Spectrum: its Proponents, Opponents, and Political Meanings
XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome
JUL
04
‘Resisting the Cosmological Sublime’
Beyond Humanism Conference, Lodz,
MaY
16
AI Debate
Linkedin Live – UEL