Keynote – AI, Intuition and the Making of Computational Cultures
Carolyn Pedwell gave a keynote at the Annual Conference of the German Association for the Study of British Cultures at University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Held between 21–23 November 2024, the event, ‘Politics of Emotion/Emotion of Politics’, focused on the connection between emotions and cultural politics, examining how emotions shape and are shaped by political events.
Carolyn’s talk, ‘AI, Intuition, and the Making of Computational Cultures’, drew on themes from her British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2024/225). Asking how, and with what critical implications, intuition became algorithmic, the paper brought affect theory and speculative philosophies to bear on computational histories and cultures as a means to tease out (some of) the continuing sensorial, socio-political, and ethical implications of post-war efforts to make intuition a quantifiable form of anticipatory knowledge and decision-making. It also considered what may be both distinctive and troubling about the training of more-than-human habits and intuitive capacities in the age of machine learning.
