Virtual Futures

Staring the future deep in the eyes and challenging everything it seems to promise since 1994. Critical voices on technoscience.

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

SUPPORT US IN CHALLENGING EVERYTHING THE FUTURE SEEMS TO PROMISE.
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#Technology #Science #Future #Events #Podcast

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

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.”

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

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. https://t.co/daFQuDDy9h

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

Pretty interesting that an obscure group of marginal philosophy academics predicted crypto and DeFi in Warwick, England around 1995.

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

@readthiswtf

[Rachel 🐀🕷️⬛ Armstrong @livingarchitect]

Really wonderful to be talking with @harikunzru on the @VirtualFutures conferences and the incredible journeys that began there ...

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

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. https://t.co/bftu6yMbvc

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

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.
https://t.co/LbZB8FrFVD

[John Ó Maoilearca @OMaoilearca]

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.

[@simon_sellars @simon_sellars]

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! https://t.co/6STCo7n237

[Repeater Books @RepeaterBooks]

Never read K-Punk?💫

All Mark Fisher ebooks are 50% off for this weekend only.
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[Emma Bearman @EmmaMBearman]

https://t.co/Xj64Y7PfzL This is part of something which asked really interesting questions @VirtualFutures

[Dr. Elsa Solaris @elsa_solaris]

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! https://t.co/r7Skm5y4Mj #brainhacking #future #flashfiction #sciencefiction

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

@Nalo_Hopkinson We have a whole playlist from our event ‘Another Loving’: https://t.co/EQQDVPLi5m

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

"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
https://t.co/RAnB1FM01w

[Andrew Wallace @AndrewWallaceDR]

From Life in Sci-Fi - all three of my @VirtualFutures #sciencefiction film shorts, curated & produced by @OramStephen @VaughanStanger @brifrischu @juleowen @LukeRobertMason - https://t.co/4FTg1RgJDY
#VFFiction #NearFutureFictions

[Andrew Wallace @AndrewWallaceDR]

Check out the hi-def rendition of my @VirtualFutures short #sciencefiction performance Frame Swingers:
https://t.co/BUsfFEmEPK
Curated by @OramStephen

[Andrew Wallace @AndrewWallaceDR]

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

[Virtual Futures @VirtualFutures]

📺 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
https://t.co/y7gnmkURVQ

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

My conversation with @citizencyborg is now online. I recommend it as a serious discussion of the future politics of humanity. #transhumanism. https://t.co/Ygp49dnQdY Many thanks to @LukeRobertMason and @VirtualFutures for making this possible.