artifices – 6th Ereignis Conference – sets out to examine artificial intelligence as alterity, desiring-machine, and symbolic force that reorganises human subjectivity, labour, and planetary life. Drawing on philosophies from Levinas and Sartre to Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, we question the natural/artificial binary and ask whether thinking machines represent a radical ethical encounter or algorithmic reduction of the Other.

Key questions include:

• How does the symbolic distinction between the “natural” body and the “artificial” cyborg create new circuits of desire and lack
• How do AI and LLMs act as desiring-machines reconfiguring affects and subjectivity beyond the thermodynamics of information?
• Does AI manifest Alterity itself, or does it annul the possibility of unconditional hospitality?

The 6th interdisciplinary Ereignis conference will take place on August 8 and 9, 2026 at Hotel Nadmorski in Gdynia, Poland, with a hybrid option for those unable to attend in person. Registration will be required.