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- **Event Name**: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 03:30 pm – Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Sarah Murray discusses her book, Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI, with Rahul Mukherjee.About this EventWolf Humanities Center • University of PennsylvaniaPowered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI Book Talk by Sarah MurraySarah MurrayAssociate Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Media, University of MichiganRahul MukherjeeDick Wolf Associate Professor of TV and New Media, University of PennsylvaniaAuthor of  (NYU Press, March 2026) Sarah Murray reveals an alternative feminist pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI by showing how smartness was a techno-cultural ideal long before the digital age. Professor Murray will be in conversation with Professor Rahul Mukherjee.More information: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– is an associate professor in Film, TV, Media, and the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. She researches how technologies and technological practices are offered as care, recognition, and longevity for some, and harm and bias for others. She writes about consumer tech, startups, everyday AI, and how media participate in discourses of death, data afterlives, and longevity. She is published in International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Histories, and Critical Studies in Media Communication. With Jeremy Wade Morris, she is coauthor of Appified: Culture in the Age of Apps (2018). is Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media, and Graduate Chair of the Department of Cinema &amp; Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His work focuses on logistical dimensions and environmental impact of media infrastructures and platforms. Rahul is the author of Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (DUP, 2020) and Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution (MIT Press, Spring 2026). He has co-edited journal special issues on super apps and megacorps, and is on the editorial advisory board of Platforms &amp; Society and Journal of Environmental Media.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.The Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).
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- **city**: Philadelphia
- **state**: PA
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