Propriomics:Toward the Post-Text Academy
3rd June 5.30pm Judith E Wilson Studio, Faculty of English
The hegemony of text-embodied knowledge within the academic practices of late colonial capitalism is being provoked and disrupted by systems for mechanical text synthesis that offer deepfake simulations of discourse, experience and interiority. Propriomics is an alternative transpecies diachronics, rethinking the information-processing body as contextualised within the Krudean “metabollockome" of disciplinary divergence and hybridity. This discursive meditation will be physically located along the umbilical cycle path from medieval Cambridge to the technogulag of globally-branded futurism.
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Prof Alan Blackwell
Alan Blackwell is Professor of Interdisciplinary Design in the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and a Fellow of Darwin College. He has worked on design of programming languages since 1983, and research in Artificial Intelligence since 1985. He practiced as a professional engineer in Aotearoa New Zealand, completed an undergraduate major in comparative religion, and plays double bass in several Cambridge orchestras. He has served on the boards of Cambridge Enterprise, the Centre for Global Equality, and the cultural consortium for the East of England among others, and was co-founder of the Crucible network for research in Interdisciplinary Design, and of the Cambridge Global Challenges interdisciplinary research centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on AI.