Talks, Conferences & Media Appearances

Upcoming 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,

3.45 – 4.pm

Sep

26

Book Launch

The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism: Techno-Human Evolution and Advanced Capitalism
University of East London, USS campus

6.30-.8.30 pm

Sep

14

‘I, Human’

Part of the British Science Festival at University House
Great Hall, UEL Stratford Campus

2pm-3pm
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Sep

05

Transhumanism and its Critics

Cape Western University (online) 

MEDIA APPEARANCES

  • 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
Image of the Thinking Aloud Programme on BBC Radio 4

Past Events – 2024

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,

2pm-4pm

MaY

16

AI Debate

Linkedin Live – UEL

Previous Events 2023 & before