Dr Emily Hoyle
@emilyehoyle.substack.com
Researcher and Associate Lecturer specialised in Gender Studies
Interests: cultural imaginaries, transhumanism, feminist technoscience, sociology of futures 🌌
Interests: cultural imaginaries, transhumanism, feminist technoscience, sociology of futures 🌌
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If you are interested in this article by @newyorker.com about the men who are investing in biohacking and longevity technologies so they can live forever you might like my doctoral thesis that explains how the desire for immortality is gender in the making: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...
Ahead of my seminar tomorrow: 'The tech-bro imagination: how transhumanism is taking over the technological future and how we can get it back' I'm listening to this great @techwontsave.us episode with @jacobsilverman.com. Adding his new book to my reading list.
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The Gilded Rage of Tech Billionaires w/ Jacob Silverman
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November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Ahead of my seminar tomorrow: 'The tech-bro imagination: how transhumanism is taking over the technological future and how we can get it back' I'm listening to this great @techwontsave.us episode with @jacobsilverman.com. Adding his new book to my reading list.
open.spotify.com/episode/3WAm...
open.spotify.com/episode/3WAm...
Tonight on the BBC is #TrumpandtheTechTitans. Next week I'll be delivering a talk about the closeness between Trump and Silicon Valley's patriarchs at York University for the SATSU: "The tech bro imagination: How transhumanism is taking over the technological future and how we can get it back"
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Tonight on the BBC is #TrumpandtheTechTitans. Next week I'll be delivering a talk about the closeness between Trump and Silicon Valley's patriarchs at York University for the SATSU: "The tech bro imagination: How transhumanism is taking over the technological future and how we can get it back"
For October's issue of Future Relics (my monthly journal of what I've been reading, seeing and thinking about) includes @andrealongchu.bsky.social latest book, a noteworthy @npr.org podcast series about sex testing and reflections on the great Northern outdoors.
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
For October's issue of Future Relics (my monthly journal of what I've been reading, seeing and thinking about) includes @andrealongchu.bsky.social latest book, a noteworthy @npr.org podcast series about sex testing and reflections on the great Northern outdoors.
I know I've been doing the algorithm right when my whole TikTok #FYP is #gayhalloween 🧡
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I know I've been doing the algorithm right when my whole TikTok #FYP is #gayhalloween 🧡
I can't stop (and won't stop) listening to Lily Allen's new album #WestEndGirl. In an interview Lily stated she didn't want to sound like a victim and she doesn't. The storytelling is poetic, potent and cathartic.
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I can't stop (and won't stop) listening to Lily Allen's new album #WestEndGirl. In an interview Lily stated she didn't want to sound like a victim and she doesn't. The storytelling is poetic, potent and cathartic.
September came and went. This is what I read, listened to and discovered last month: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
Frontierland and Open Water
In the September edition of Future Relics I spotlight the "immortality bros" who desperately seek deregulation and discuss my yearning to swim
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October 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
September came and went. This is what I read, listened to and discovered last month: open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
Reposted by Dr Emily Hoyle
Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.
On my run I listened to this podcast episode. The use of frontier is a key part of their storytelling and it is no coincidence these bros are cosying up to Trump's government as we witness a strengthening of patriarchal power. I discuss all of this in my thesis. open.spotify.com/episode/3J7b...
The immortality bros: the new frontiers of health
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September 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On my run I listened to this podcast episode. The use of frontier is a key part of their storytelling and it is no coincidence these bros are cosying up to Trump's government as we witness a strengthening of patriarchal power. I discuss all of this in my thesis. open.spotify.com/episode/3J7b...
Better late than never! My August edition of #FutureRelics is now published 👽
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/body-and-h...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/body-and-h...
Body and Horror: Vampires, Aliens, and Nudes
For the August edition of Future Relics, I discuss the Jenny Saville Exhibition, a book I am struggling to get into and the new FX Alien: Earth series
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September 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Better late than never! My August edition of #FutureRelics is now published 👽
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/body-and-h...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/body-and-h...
Are universities for education, or for profit?
August 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Are universities for education, or for profit?
Listened to this on my morning run about how in the 1960s women were excluded from long distance running due to false fears it would make them infertile, or worse kill them. A reminder the marathon (and running generally) is a contested site for gender and sex. open.spotify.com/episode/5gi4...
Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Episode
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August 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Listened to this on my morning run about how in the 1960s women were excluded from long distance running due to false fears it would make them infertile, or worse kill them. A reminder the marathon (and running generally) is a contested site for gender and sex. open.spotify.com/episode/5gi4...
April next year will be running #TheLondonMarathon for Prostate Cancer Research. This charity means a great deal to me. You can read about my motivation at www.justgiving.com/page/emilyrunsthemarathon - this is also the place to donate (thank you!). Wish me luck! @justgiving.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
April next year will be running #TheLondonMarathon for Prostate Cancer Research. This charity means a great deal to me. You can read about my motivation at www.justgiving.com/page/emilyrunsthemarathon - this is also the place to donate (thank you!). Wish me luck! @justgiving.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the future undergraduates receiving their #Alevelresults today! ⭐ I hope part of the media coverage includes the savage cuts to university staff and courses across HE that will diminish the exceptional and diverse teaching these undergraduates deserve @ucu.org.uk
August 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Congratulations to all the future undergraduates receiving their #Alevelresults today! ⭐ I hope part of the media coverage includes the savage cuts to university staff and courses across HE that will diminish the exceptional and diverse teaching these undergraduates deserve @ucu.org.uk
When I first began researching transhumanism it was considered fringe, and I would frequently have to explain what it is and why it is significant. #Mountainhead puts it on full view and pokes fun at it.
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Four Men and a Mountain
The tech bromance of Jesse Armstrong's Mountainhead (2025) marks a cultural shift
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August 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
When I first began researching transhumanism it was considered fringe, and I would frequently have to explain what it is and why it is significant. #Mountainhead puts it on full view and pokes fun at it.
open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
Fortunate to have attended the #JennySaville exhibition at the #NationalPortraitGallery. Her work is kinetic, and in dialogue with the passive nudes of the classical painters. For me, it also emphasised the importance of Gender Studies in a time when Gender Studies courses are being stripped back.
August 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Fortunate to have attended the #JennySaville exhibition at the #NationalPortraitGallery. Her work is kinetic, and in dialogue with the passive nudes of the classical painters. For me, it also emphasised the importance of Gender Studies in a time when Gender Studies courses are being stripped back.
If you are interested in this article by @newyorker.com about the men who are investing in biohacking and longevity technologies so they can live forever you might like my doctoral thesis that explains how the desire for immortality is gender in the making: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If you are interested in this article by @newyorker.com about the men who are investing in biohacking and longevity technologies so they can live forever you might like my doctoral thesis that explains how the desire for immortality is gender in the making: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...
Strings writes, "the phobia about fatness and the preference for thinness have not, principally or historically, been about health. Instead, they have been one way the body has been used to craft and legitimate race, sex, and class hierarchies."
Skims profits off controversy, and I agree with the commentary this so-called "facial shapewear" contributes to the Ozempic culture of slenderness and control of the feminine body. But also it made me think of the book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings.
July 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Strings writes, "the phobia about fatness and the preference for thinness have not, principally or historically, been about health. Instead, they have been one way the body has been used to craft and legitimate race, sex, and class hierarchies."
Skims profits off controversy, and I agree with the commentary this so-called "facial shapewear" contributes to the Ozempic culture of slenderness and control of the feminine body. But also it made me think of the book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings.
July 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Skims profits off controversy, and I agree with the commentary this so-called "facial shapewear" contributes to the Ozempic culture of slenderness and control of the feminine body. But also it made me think of the book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings.
I have a ✨ new ✨ section on my SubStack called Future Relics. This month I discuss Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the @speculativemach.bsky.social event, the @britsoci.bsky.social materialist workshop and more...
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emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...
Millennial Cringe, Disorientating AI, and Beasts in the Machine
For July's cultural cache I reveal my Tumblr connection to Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In organisation and discuss the power and potentials of storytelling
emilyehoyle.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I have a ✨ new ✨ section on my SubStack called Future Relics. This month I discuss Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the @speculativemach.bsky.social event, the @britsoci.bsky.social materialist workshop and more...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/millennial...
Had a mind bending day at The Speculative Machines and Us event today at Lancaster Uni. Thank you to @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for such an awespiring event of generative discussions. I'm interested in the disorientation of looking back to understand our futures.
wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI
We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…
wp.lancs.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Had a mind bending day at The Speculative Machines and Us event today at Lancaster Uni. Thank you to @carolynpedwell.bsky.social for such an awespiring event of generative discussions. I'm interested in the disorientation of looking back to understand our futures.
wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
In my most recent Substack I explore @jessearmstrong.bsky.social's #Mountainhead read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...
July 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In my most recent Substack I explore @jessearmstrong.bsky.social's #Mountainhead read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...
Really looking forward to attending this on Thursday 🤖
Final registration call for the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded symposium, 'Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI', @lancasteruni.bsky.social on 17 July! 💥🤖 FULL PROGRAMME, ABSTRACTS AND BIOS here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
Register now here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
Register now here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/sciencestudi...
Speculative Machines and Us: Histories and Futures of AI
We warmly invite colleagues to join us for an in-person one-day symposium on Thursday 17th July 2025. To join, please register using the link below. The event is organised by the Centre for Science…
wp.lancs.ac.uk
July 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Really looking forward to attending this on Thursday 🤖
Sunday and finishing a book 🫶🏻☕
July 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday and finishing a book 🫶🏻☕
Interesting episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. Guest Ed Zitron exposes how the so-called concerns from the industry about the safety of AI is actual disgenerous marketing and any real concerns should be about the environment damage and harms from misinformation.
open.spotify.com/episode/3LlO...
open.spotify.com/episode/3LlO...
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle. And How AI is Making Music
On the Media · Episode
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July 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Interesting episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. Guest Ed Zitron exposes how the so-called concerns from the industry about the safety of AI is actual disgenerous marketing and any real concerns should be about the environment damage and harms from misinformation.
open.spotify.com/episode/3LlO...
open.spotify.com/episode/3LlO...