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...
As media and cultural studies and gender studies courses continue to be cut and slashed society's critical response to these forms of power are at stake. How does a society reckon with the Epstein Files without the tools to do so?
What caught my attention is how this staging by The Times is an intentional sanitisation of Peter Mandelson through domesticity which is traditionally viewed as feminine. Contrasted against the abject displays of masculinity in the Epstein Files. Understanding gender is understanding culture.
February 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
As media and cultural studies and gender studies courses continue to be cut and slashed society's critical response to these forms of power are at stake. How does a society reckon with the Epstein Files without the tools to do so?
What caught my attention is how this staging by The Times is an intentional sanitisation of Peter Mandelson through domesticity which is traditionally viewed as feminine. Contrasted against the abject displays of masculinity in the Epstein Files. Understanding gender is understanding culture.
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
What caught my attention is how this staging by The Times is an intentional sanitisation of Peter Mandelson through domesticity which is traditionally viewed as feminine. Contrasted against the abject displays of masculinity in the Epstein Files. Understanding gender is understanding culture.
Epstein and Musk aren't just linked in emails, they shared a similar and disturbing vision of the future. I argue we should be understanding the erosion of trans and reproductive rights as a symptom of this vision. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds...
February 3, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Epstein and Musk aren't just linked in emails, they shared a similar and disturbing vision of the future. I argue we should be understanding the erosion of trans and reproductive rights as a symptom of this vision. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds...
As part of @futurism.com's reporting on Elon Musk's crash out since the latest release of the #EpsteinFiles they note, "Musk reportedly goes around asking a lot of women, some of them his own employees, to receive his sperm and secretly have his babies".
February 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
As part of @futurism.com's reporting on Elon Musk's crash out since the latest release of the #EpsteinFiles they note, "Musk reportedly goes around asking a lot of women, some of them his own employees, to receive his sperm and secretly have his babies".
Noam Chomsky being pictured on a private jet with Epstein isn't all that surprising, but wow, what a way to show the world you are just a cardboard cut out of a man pretending to be an anti-capitalist intellectual.
February 2, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Noam Chomsky being pictured on a private jet with Epstein isn't all that surprising, but wow, what a way to show the world you are just a cardboard cut out of a man pretending to be an anti-capitalist intellectual.
In my latest Substack I discuss the ideologies popular among the elite that often get overlooked in discussion of #Epstein and #TheEpsteinFile. The way I see it, this power operates through the patriarchy. You can read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds...
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In my latest Substack I discuss the ideologies popular among the elite that often get overlooked in discussion of #Epstein and #TheEpsteinFile. The way I see it, this power operates through the patriarchy. You can read it here: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds...
Adapted from a talk I presented at The University of York this essay discusses the disturbing logic of #pronatalism and it's relationship to the erosion of #reproductiverights. 15 minute read: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds... #techelite #techbros #transhumanism
January 29, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Adapted from a talk I presented at The University of York this essay discusses the disturbing logic of #pronatalism and it's relationship to the erosion of #reproductiverights. 15 minute read: emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/male-seeds... #techelite #techbros #transhumanism
In an era of anxiety about declining populations, the push for increased birth rates has taken a sharp, ideological turn among the tech elite. Read the latest installment of Can Replicants Read? here:
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"Male Seeds": The Disturbing Pronatalist Logic Behind Epstein’s Vision of The Future
How transhumanism fuels the patriarchal desire to treat procreation as a technological tool for engineering eternal life
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January 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM
In an era of anxiety about declining populations, the push for increased birth rates has taken a sharp, ideological turn among the tech elite. Read the latest installment of Can Replicants Read? here:
open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
For 2026 Panodime on Tiktok is posting a video every single day of the CEO of ChatGPT, Sam Alterman, saying something insane
January 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
For 2026 Panodime on Tiktok is posting a video every single day of the CEO of ChatGPT, Sam Alterman, saying something insane
Revisiting my Substack posts from this year, starting with Four Men and a Mountain. My review of Jesse Armstrong's film Mountainhead. Short read:
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Revisiting my Substack posts from this year, starting with Four Men and a Mountain. My review of Jesse Armstrong's film Mountainhead. Short read:
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...
emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/four-men-a...
I don't want chatgpt, I want to see what dogs dream.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I don't want chatgpt, I want to see what dogs dream.
For the November issue of Future Relics, my monthly Substack journal that records items of interest, I discuss @jacobsilverman.com's book Gilded Rage: The Radicalisation of Silicon Valley, the metaphor of cloud storage and imaginings of Al. It's a short read:
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open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
Silicon Valley's Polluted Sky Thinking
November's Future Relics highlights the right wing politics of Silicon Valley and how imaginings of AI have material consequences
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December 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For the November issue of Future Relics, my monthly Substack journal that records items of interest, I discuss @jacobsilverman.com's book Gilded Rage: The Radicalisation of Silicon Valley, the metaphor of cloud storage and imaginings of Al. It's a short read:
open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
open.substack.com/pub/emilyeho...
When travelling in England the majority of your intended trains will be delayed or cancelled. The failure of privatisation is embedded into the everyday as there has been no investment. The stripping of public transport in service of shareholders who don't use the very trains they profit from.
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
When travelling in England the majority of your intended trains will be delayed or cancelled. The failure of privatisation is embedded into the everyday as there has been no investment. The stripping of public transport in service of shareholders who don't use the very trains they profit from.
Great video by @theverge.com about Microsoft's marketing of CoPilot. It demonstrates the failure of interacting with CoPilot and how it requires labour and literacy that is often hidden (i.e. knowing the correct prompts). But also it shows how Big Tech are capitalising on imaginaries of Ai.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Great video by @theverge.com about Microsoft's marketing of CoPilot. It demonstrates the failure of interacting with CoPilot and how it requires labour and literacy that is often hidden (i.e. knowing the correct prompts). But also it shows how Big Tech are capitalising on imaginaries of Ai.
I was very fortunate to delivered a seminar about my research for the SATSU at The University of York yesterday. The sociology department was so welcoming and generous. Big thank you to everyone who attended, took interest and asked questions. Info about the event: www.york.ac.uk/sociology/ab...
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I was very fortunate to delivered a seminar about my research for the SATSU at The University of York yesterday. The sociology department was so welcoming and generous. Big thank you to everyone who attended, took interest and asked questions. Info about the event: www.york.ac.uk/sociology/ab...
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...
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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?