{"title": "From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/sustainability", "history/colonialism", "science/technology"], "description": "An evening of talks and a short film screening about technology, sustainability and Ireland. The authors of From the Bog to the Cloud: Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland present their book, which challenges eco-modern and techno-solutionist approaches and links narratives of sustainability with colonial histories and uneven development, arguing that tech-driven transitions replicate exploitative patterns of imperial capitalism. Using Ireland as a focal point, they show the history and depth of the country's postcolonial dependency on multinational investment, especially US technology companies, including arms companies. The talk is accompanied by Roisin Agnew's short film Bog Communism, a micro short that is part film essay, part mock recruitment video, exploring resistance to data centres in Ireland via archive footage and Unreal Engine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud-dependency-and-eco-modernity-in-ir-70039/", "official_url": "https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/115/from-the-bog-to-the-cloud-dependency-and-eco-modernity-in-ireland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8fdf4caf823e00999a57f9ca49a5dc3f7c97d836e9f222a4fe22e37c1cd35f2f-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Permacomputing Club", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T19:30:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/repair", "science/technology"], "description": "Permacomputing Club is a weekly community gathering at a Peckham venue devoted to resilient, sustainable, low-tech alternatives to modern computing. It is organised by Ana Meisel and Margot McEwen and hosted every Monday evening at SET Social. Driven by anti-capitalist values and inspired by permaculture, degrowth, decolonial thinking and intersectional feminism, the club opposes tech monopolies and resource-heavy systems like AI. Sessions centre on collective discussion and hands-on repair rather than solo tinkering, and everyone is welcome, with women and non-binary folks particularly encouraged to join.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/permacomputing-club-38480/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ace7f4a7a474c8501ac951e57d12a485b71cc250dfd9060d663201d94d7a60b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. 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Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e938b9debef8b95d6129d3c305ce4e2fbad2471ae52b2b6be8eef06b5002bc31-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year.html", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Arcadia\" is a multi-screen film installation about a global migration of people, nature and disease. It is by John Akomfrah, a widely respected artist and filmmaker known for works exploring memory, post-colonialism and the experiences of migrant diasporas. The installation shows the mass movement of plants, people, animals, metals, diseases and ideas between the Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Europe from the 1400s onwards, known as the Columbian Exchange. Across five screens, imagery of deserts, ice fields, mountains and seas is set to a soundtrack of nature sounds, opera and poetry, asking how migration, colonialism and empire have shaped the planet and its legacies today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcadia-by-sir-john-akomfrah-37307/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87cfdafa70afbf36f276ba78f0bbea4e9f99d2506264574d3eb39780c75ad3e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Future is Not Lost by Matt Bluemink Book Launch + Talk", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-presentation", "music"], "description": "A book launch and talk for \"The Future is Not Lost: On Music, Technology, and the Creation of New Worlds\" by Matt Bluemink, held in the Studio at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Bluemink, a writer and philosopher and editor-in-chief of Blue Labyrinths magazine, presents the key ideas of his new book, with the talk moderated by theorist Alessandro Sbordoni. He argues, drawing on artists like SOPHIE, Arca and Iglooghost and on thinkers such as Bernard Stiegler and Gilbert Simondon, that the future has not disappeared but still speaks through music. The presentation and discussion are followed by a Q&A session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-future-is-not-lost-by-matt-bluemink-book-launch-talk-36638/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/talks/matt-bluemink-the-future-is-not-lost", "image": "https://noky.io/images/81b9eddf57f849ec323a292938bb34a752f82bf992bead818dd301f945d9144b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/short-film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A screening night presenting short horror films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation. It features works by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and Oba, Riar Rizaldi, and the Karrabing Film Collective, including 'Nosferasta: First Bite', 'Notes from Gog Magog', and 'The Family (A Zombie Movie)'. The films are warned to contain horror images and jump scare moments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie-60636/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88a0597e67e50a995d91e95bf54829bd2e07b27269baed7e1259abd9084f65e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The ecologies of the marginalised, everyday socio-environmental struggles in São Paulo’s peripheries", "start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Development Planning Unit, UCL", "address": "Tavistock Square 34, WC1H 9EZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-in-sao-paulos-peripheries-tickets-2001880806381?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A talk in the DPU Dialogues in Development series about everyday socio-environmental struggles in the peripheries of São Paulo, at the intersection of housing exclusion and environmental crisis. It features Dr Lucas Lerchs, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and is chaired by Dr Giovanna Astolfo. The research explores how everyday inhabitation processes of ecological reserves are co-produced and transformed by conditions of socio-ecological marginalisation. The talk is followed by a 30-minute screening of a documentary filmed in the periphery of São Paulo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-ecologies-of-the-marginalised-everyday-socio-environment-45822/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/nov/ecologies-marginalised-everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-sao-paulos-peripheries", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ec19515a0463886a1ebdc80fa1315efd68c43c6fe0fd2f9e05e5e4a6ab9a36-600.webp"}, {"title": "Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/how-sustainable-or-unsustainable-chinas-miracle-growth-dengs-reforms", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A seminar on state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and how it reaches global supply chains from apparel to renewable energy. Organised by the SOAS China Institute, it features Professor Laura T. Murphy, a scholar of forced labour at Sheffield Hallam University and Senior Associate at CSIS, chaired by Professor Rachel Harris of SOAS. The talk examines how the government manufactures vulnerability among Indigenous citizens to justify its actions, and how corporations use discourses of 'urgency' and 'complexity' to shelter their complicity. The event is free and open to the public, though registration is required, and will not be recorded or live-streamed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manufacturing-vulnerability-in-the-uyghur-region-state-impos-43662/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/manufacturing-vulnerability-uyghur-region-state-imposed-forced-labour-and-crisis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/123c3dd9f29d68dd4f08d93891c30fc51d4202e666bddfc9acae0efb79a01595-2000.webp"}, {"title": "PANEL TALK: PUBLISHING AS COLLECTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE with Minor Compositions", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "Sliding scale", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-confessions-of-a-london-river-hunter-by-john-rogers/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/publishing", "society/media"], "description": "A panel talk and launch for the book Publishing as Collective Infrastructure, a collectively authored, polyphonic work that rethinks the book-form as an intervention into academic and open-access publishing. Emerging from the ServPub project, it brings together artists, academics, technologists, feminist server collectives, and experimental publishers to examine how publishing is shaped by extractive platforms, proprietary software, unpaid labour, and opaque infrastructures. The book, involving In-grid, Minor Compositions, noNames, Shape, and Systerserver with further contributions, documents alternative models grounded in free and open-source tools, collective authorship, feminist care practices, and self-hosted, small-scale infrastructures. Tickets are on a sliding scale, with free tickets available on request.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-talk-publishing-as-collective-infrastructure-with-mino-41518/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/panel-talk-publishing-as-collective-infrastructure-with-minor-compositions/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/165c8ba440082f120ffa58309099067bccedd41166b20efc0705b977761ab8a9-2000.webp"}]}