Who Counts?

This workshop will explore freedom of speech in both historical and contemporary contexts through an exploration of the politics and ethics of technology and language. Over the course of four days we will produce an interactive response to Alan Turing’s proposition that intelligence is evidenced through language (known as ‘The Turing Test’) with an aim to update, undermine and disrupt contemporary markers of ‘who counts’. Who (or what) gets to speak, and for whom? In the contemporary hyper-technological context do we need to rethink our understanding of both freedom and speech within liberal (and illiberal) democracies?