Author: Alex Taylor
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- Alex Taylor is a sociologist working in the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design. Showing a broad fasciation for the entanglements between social life and machines, his research ranges from empirical studies of technology in everyday life to speculative design interventions—both large and small scale. Across these realms, he draws on a feminist technoscience to ask questions about the co-constitutive roles human-machine composites play in forms of knowing and being, and how they might open up possibilities for fundamental transformations in society. Most recently, he’s begun to wonder about the abilities of humans and non-humans, together, and to speculate on hybrid compositions that enlarge capacity and offer the chance of something different-than, something more-than.
Posts by Alex Taylor
CHI Workshop
Are you Research Excellent?
The UK’s national Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment is looming. The formal deadline is in 2021, but many will be already feeling the pressures in their institutions and departments to be making sense of their work in terms of REF’s metrics and procedures. I’ve found myself entangled in this world of REF recently and wanting […]
Reading “Accounting for Slavery”
HCID Seminar talk
Cycling on up
I’ve been continuing with my experimentations and thoughts on cycling, and in particular extending my reflections on my first ‘Boris Bike’ journey recorded in 2014 (see this chapter). There’ll hopefully be more to come in the coming months that tie together the space-times I traversed with other records and different accounts. A video captured using the […]
EASST 2018 Presentation
Abigail Durrant and I gave our paper “Modelling Cells in/with risky comakings and devious worlds” at EASST last week, in the fabulous Feminist Figures panel. Very excited to see @alxndrt and @abigail_durrant present today in #feministfigures you both rocked! Not my best pic of the day but I really wanted to show this slide with […]
Reading “Critical Fabulations”
When we really need it — amidst so much darkness and gloom — Daniela Rosner has woven together an interventionist design with a critical feminist view to produce something so full of promise. The generative theorising set out in the works of Donna Haraway, Anna Tsing, Saidiya Hartman and so on (all such outstanding figures […]
Seminar talk and discussion with Daniela Rosner
I’m really thrilled to have Daniela Rosner visiting us at the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCID), and especially excited about her HCID seminar talk. She’ll be expanding on ideas from her book “Critical Fabulations: Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design”, and Ann Light will acting as discussant. For details see this Eventbrite page […]
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Newcastle APL Talk
Talking to the good people at Newcastle’s School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape (APL), I got the chance yesterday to develop and share my slowly evolving thoughts on bike journeys, bodies and fabulations. Living Fruitfully in/with the conditions of (im-) possibilty ABSTRACT In this talk, I want to revisit a piece I wrote in 2016. […]
Experiments in collective counting
I’m really happy to have a short piece by me and Clara Crivellaro included in the publication “Self-Service”, a collection of contributions responding to . Kirsty Hendry and Ilona Sagar produced the publication which was exhibited alongside their film screening at the Glasgow International Festival. In “Experiments in collective counting”, Clara and I write about […]
FoI Request: Amount paid per year to repay Slavery Abolition Act loan
In response to a story reported via a number of news sites and exploring a thread in my own research, I submitted a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Her Majesty’s Treasury on the 7th April. In brief, I requested further details on the amount paid per year to repay the Slavery Abolition Act loan, […]
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