Author: KB
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Future of (a Climate) Denial
Last Thursday I was honoured to be asked to join a panel celebrating the publication of my great friend Professor Tad Delay’s book on psychoanalysis and the climate emergency, Future of Denial: This was part of the Historical Materialism conference at SOAS, and it was great to speak alongside Richard Seymour, whose own response to…
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On Napoleons and Caesars, and Hope beyond the Bag of Wind
It’s not quite been a week since the election in the US. Some I know wanted to stay up to see the result in; I had a suspicion that a few more hours of ignorance-in-bliss might be best. There was no joy in being right. Neither, I have to admit, was I ever particularly excited…
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Take to the streets! (with chocolate)
It’s hard to know how to process the final run up to the US election. It seems so absurd and unreal – everything drawn in hyper-caricature, no sense allowed to be made, single apostrophes being asked to carry the weight of a whole democracy, and a stunt in a garbage truck more powerful a signifier…
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Eternally You – performing the god-like act of resurrection
Hitting TV screens in the UK right now is a new BBC Storyville documentary, Eternally You, ‘delving into world of startups using AI to create avatars of the deceased.’ The Guardian ran a 5-star review of it, which I do think it deserves. As they outline: Joshua Barbeau […] uses it to talk to his…
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Music Creation in the Age of AI
Delighted to be chairing a panel on Music Creation in the Age of AI on Monday 28th November at Somerset House. Grab a ticket here. Hosted by the excellent On Da Beat records, I’ll be joined by Annemarie Gaillard (Head of Creative Partnerships at DAACI Drums), Nathan Duvall, (Founder of Sync-it.io) and Toby Akinyemi, (CEO…
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Not OK, Computer?
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” – AI Training Statement / https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/ Over 11,000 artists, writers, actors, musicians and others in the creative industries have signed the above statement, expressing their opposition…