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The biggest global conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CHI 2014<\/a>, took place in Toronto in May. Last year at CHI I collaborated with the Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre<\/a> on a paper called ‘The Future Robot Enslavement of Mankind’<\/a>, which looked back from an imaginary future to congratulate Homo Sapiens on its contribution to its own near-obsolesence.<\/p>\n

This year we collaborated once again to contribute a paper called ‘Fifty Shades Of CHI’, which “uses the form and language of erotic BDSM romance fiction to present a critical lens on the nature of power in the relationship between people and contemporary technology”. The official download is here, as is the video<\/a>; or you can download the e-print from the Lincoln repository<\/a>. I’m wondering where we can go next year in terms of genre. With scifi and porn done and dusted, the options are limited.<\/p>\n

Shortly before that, I finally published \u201cDeleuze, diagramas, e arte esquizofr\u00eanica\u201d, the talk I gave at\u00a0 Col\u00f3quio Deleuze & Guattari: Filosofia Pr\u00e1tica<\/a> in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. (It’s in Portuguese, but you might want to download it just for the pictures: e-print here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

My reason for not being in Toronto in May was that I was speaking about J. G. Ballard at the very splendid Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds. The occasion was a wonderful, intense conference called Landcapes of Tomorrow: J. G. Ballard in Space and Time<\/a>. Apparently one of the highlights of the conference was my description of the ur-accelerationist Mr Toad having an orgasm as he crashes an imaginary car in The Wind and the Willows<\/em>. Audio of the talk is allegedly available somewhere on the internet.<\/p>\n

In the middle of all this, in late May I managed to fail to speak at the University of Lincoln conference As Above, So Below: A Colloquium on Drone Culture<\/a>: a huge disappointment to me, both because it turned out to be a fabulous conference and as I’d been looking forward to returning to Lincoln so much. My intention is to polish the paper I wished to give into at least open-access format and make it available here on my site and\/or on academia.edu.<\/p>\n

And in June I spoke at the British Association for Modernist Studies conference Modernism Now!<\/a> at Senate House, the University of London, about ‘Beckett, Acceleration, and the Ruin of Language’. This I took as an opportunity to fill some of the literary lacunae in the reading lists of the accelerationists du jour<\/em>; there’s a lot more work to be done on that front.<\/p>\n

It’s been a busy few months – and this is without even mentioning a couple of very productive trips to Poland, a fascinating private view courtesy of the Ballard estate, a very strange interview with the New Scientist, and a new post in London.\u00a0 But news of all that can wait.<\/p>\n

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