Luke Brunning
@lukebrunning.bsky.social
Academic philosopher interested in intimate relationships and emotions.
Tomorrow is the final day for PhDs and post-docs to express interest for this workshop on breakups.
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 2w agoOne week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
One week for post-grad and post-docs to express interest in presenting at our Breakup Workshop 💔👇🏻
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · last mo.Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
We have a swanky new website! As part of our website update, we asked @lukebrunning.bsky.social to explain who CLSR are, what we do, and why you should get involved⚡️ Follow the link in our bio to see an updated list of all our old and upcoming events, exciting news, publications, members and more💕
Got a post-doc application in the works? Interested in philosophy, love, intimacy and relationships? Then consider applying to research alongside us. 👇
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 3w agoWant a @britishacademy.bsky.social post-doctoral fellowship with us? We'd love to mentor philosophers with projects on intimacy, love, and relationships. More information here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
This is your periodic reminder that if you’re interested in love, sex, or relationships in all their diversity then follow @clsrleeds.bsky.social - there is a great bunch of people doing good work on every aspect of these topics.
This is your periodic reminder that if you’re interested in love, sex, or relationships in all their diversity then follow @clsrleeds.bsky.social - there is a great bunch of people doing good work on every aspect of these topics.
Look at this amazing conference on intimate injustices that our PhD researchers have put together!
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · 3w agoWe’re buzzing to share with you the programme for our upcoming workshop at MANCEPT, Intimate (In)Justices. Looking forward to a great few days of varied and important discussions of political and ethical issues in the intimate sphere ❤️
"Emotional Outsourcing" with @agholdier.bsky.social is out in The Philosophical Quarterly! Pre-print on philpapers for anyone interested. academic.oup.com/pq/advance-a...
Emotional outsourcing
Abstract. Prompting a chatbot to write an apology or a love letter on your behalf is a form of emotional outsourcing—an act in which a person gives over a
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Out now in Contemporary Political Theory, my review of Federica Gegoratto’s Love Troubles: a philosophy of eros. This is a fantastic book about what eros is, why it matters, and how it might change our lives and society. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Love troubles: A philosophy of eros - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
Breakups! Our next event is on philosophy and the end of relationships. 💔👇🏻
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships@clsrleeds.bsky.social · last mo.Philosophers have mostly neglected breakups, despite their impact on our lives. Our next workshop aims to catalyse more research into the ethics of breakups.
My The Conversation article, exploring some of the ways using AI may undermine intimacy, has been translated into French: theconversation.com/quand-lia-si...
Quand l’IA s’invite dans nos relations, la véritable intimité tend à disparaître
La banalisation de l’IA sape la curiosité de soi et l’envie de prendre des risques, nécessaires à la construction d’une véritable intimité et de relations qui ont du sens.
theconversation.com
Our blog is now on Substack - come find us if you’re interested in applied ethics: open.substack.com/pub/ethicsun...
Ethics Untangled | Substack
Click to read Ethics Untangled, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.
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Off to London to take part in @britishacademy.bsky.social Ideas Festival today. Check out the programme here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/ideas...
The British Academy Ideas Festival - Friday Late
The British Academy Ideas Festival returns on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June. Celebrating bold thinking and unexpected discoveries from the histories that shape our identities to the forces influencin...
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Rosa Vince is speaking at this fantastic conference on the power structures embedded in gendered, romantic, and sexual relations. At @univie.ac.at on Friday and Saturday.
The current government really does seem hellbent on ensuring higher education is decimated beyond repair. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans
Exclusive: Ministers consider national threshold in England that could in effect bar thousands from studying
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Ahead of his appearance at our Ideas Festival this Friday, Dr Luke Brunning joined @theconversation.com to discuss the importance of analogue intimacy, and what happens when our closest relationships become increasingly mediated by technology.
Luke Brunning@lukebrunning.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy latest article in @theconversation.com explores some of the ways using AI may undermine intimacy. AI might promise to make things easier but I suggest there is value in being curious, figuring things out, and failing, especially in intimate life. theconversation.com/as-ai-plays-...
Find out more at the free Friday Late that kicks off this year's British Academy Ideas Festival with a panel that includes @lukebrunning.bsky.social on 'Love by Design: Dating apps, intimacy and ethics'. 1/2
As AI plays a bigger role in relationships, true intimacy is getting lost
The normalisation of AI to mediate and shape intimacy arguably erodes self-curiosity.
theconversation.com
My latest article in @theconversation.com explores some of the ways using AI may undermine intimacy. AI might promise to make things easier but I suggest there is value in being curious, figuring things out, and failing, especially in intimate life. theconversation.com/as-ai-plays-...
As AI plays a bigger role in relationships, true intimacy is getting lost
The normalisation of AI to mediate and shape intimacy arguably erodes self-curiosity.
theconversation.com
I spoke to @lukebrunning.bsky.social about my research on deepfakes and online authenticity for the new Ethics Untangled blog by @idea-leeds.bsky.social: ethics-untangled.ghost.io/deepfakes-an... Sign up to the blog above for more interviews and insights from my fantastic colleagues at IDEA.
“The corporate takeover of language and thought will only succeed if academics and students allow it.” Edinburgh Philosophy telling it like it is #philsky #ai
Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s - Daily Nous
Has your department instituted an AI policy? If so, whom does it govern, and what does it say? What should such a policy say? Has your department considered an AI policy but held off on writing or imp...
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Never in my wildest dreams did I think enough people would care enough about my thoughts on dementia care to spend a day talking about them. Check out the new Ethics Untangled blog for my reflections on my recent book launch workshop.
IDEA: The Ethics Centre@idea-leeds.bsky.social · 3mo agoA new blog post reflecting on @matildacarter.bsky.social’s book workshop: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Check out these amazing free events down at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social 👇🏻
Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 3mo agoBuckle up, buttercup! I'm going to do a thread with all the cool stuff going on in our King's Digital Futures Institute free Festival of Storytelling, taking place in central London on 2-4 July and open to EVERYONE. @kings-dfi.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
Two years ago, Romantic Agency was published by @politybooks.bsky.social If you’re interested in intimacy and relationships, then you’re likely to find something to grapple with in this book. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Romantic Agency: Loving Well in Modern Life
Romantic Agency: Loving Well in Modern Life, This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives
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