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SUMMARY:'The Humanities and the Machine'  - Professor Steven Connor (Peter
 house College\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20161025T164500Z
DTEND:20161025T181500Z
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:For the last century or so\, the humanities have defined thems
 elves defensively and self-aggrandisingly against a paranoid notion of the
  dominion of the machine that I want to say does us no good and should be 
 abandoned. At a time when we must be less sure than ever what a machine is
 \, or might be\, it makes no sense at all to think of humanity separate fr
 om the experience of and feeling for machines. In place of the defensive q
 uestion 'What future in a technical world is there for the humanities?'\, 
 we should be asking 'What future in a technical world is there but the hum
 anities?'
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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