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2024 Book Festival Highlights

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Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us

Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us

Two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems. Hear Financial Times AI editor Madhumita Murgia (author of Code Dependent) and artist and academic Georgina Voss (author of Systems Ultra) as they question what ethical, moral, and practical questions are being left in the wake of technological advance? What happens next? Chaired by Pip Thornton. Supported by Edinburgh Futures Institute…

Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections (2020 Event)
Paul Mendez & Derek Owusu: Thorny Intersections (2020 Event)

How do you get the upper hand on a world you don’t yet understand? That’s the burning question at the heart of two striking debuts that scrape away the coming-of-age clichés…

Anne Enright with Vicky Featherstone: Mothers and Daughters (2020 Event)
Anne Enright with Vicky Featherstone: Mothers and Daughters (2020 Event)

‘You were always sitting in character, you were just never sure which one.’ So says Norah to the memory of her mother in Actress, the new novel by Anne Enright. The mother in…

Bain de Soleil
Bain de Soleil by David Vann

Williams College in Massachusetts. 1985. I arrived in ripped jeans from California. I’d been fire-walking, meditating, learning etheric surgery, hoping to become a mystic…