Conference Programme

All times CET (Warsaw). The programme may be subject to change.

Friday, August 7
18:30

Meet-and-greet at Vinegre Rooftop Bar. All welcome! (Sign up to our social programme)

Saturday, August 8
08:45

Welcome

Dr Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts

09:15

Keynote

Prof Jørgen Veisland, University of Gdańsk, Poland:
“Claude‘s Constitution: Matter and form as artifice” Abstract

Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld

10:15

Session 1 (hybrid): Testimony, embodiment, and the phenomenology of AI

Andrzej Skupień, Ignatianum University in Kraków, Poland:
“The Witness Who Believed the Algorithm. On the Crisis of Testimony in the Age of AI.” Abstract

Balım İslamoğlu, Bahçeşehir University:
“The Suspension of Touch: AI Lovers and the Flesh of Reversibility” Abstract

Juan César Hernández León, Autonomous University of Barcelona:
“More than imitation: Chatbots as simulation of the Other. On some ontological implications.” Abstract

Braden Cooper, Independent:
“Does it Really Matter if AI Systems Exhibit Autonomy?” Abstract

Moderator: Jørgen Veisland

12:00

Session 2 (hybrid student session): AI, sound and cultural production

Dorota Orzechowska, University College London:
“Echo, AI and Machine Listening” Abstract

Joseph Tobing, Independent:
“Exploring AI Usage in Contemporary Indonesian Music and Poetry” Abstract

Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld

13:00

Lunch at Hotel Nadmorski (Sign up to our social programme)

14:30

Session 3 (hybrid): Writing, technics, and the deconstruction of presence

Jakub Mácha, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic:
“LLMs as Différance Machines: Derrida, Searle, and the Problem of Propositional Unity” Abstract

Dror Pimentel, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem:
“Writing, or the First Artifact” Abstract

Kathleen Kerr-Koch, Independent:
“Différance and Techno-logic in Philosophical Discourse” Abstract

Moderator: Gorica Orsholits

16:00

Keynote

Assistant Professor Jan Overwijk, University for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, NL:
“Artificial, incommunicable: the cybernetic rationalization of work” Abstract

Moderator: Jørgen Veisland

17:00

Roundtable

Key question: A recurring theme in the corporate marketing of popular AI models is that AI is about to reach, or has already reached, autonomy or singularity — terminology varies. From a more philosophical perspective, one could argue that there is already a certain autonomy to the output generated by these machines: what we might call the semblance of subjectivity. Insofar as these sovereign effects prove sustainable, how do we foresee handling the rights and dignity of those involved in AI operations — including the machines themselves?

Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld

18:00

Day one ends

19:30

Conference dinner at Viceversa, Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria. (Sign up to our social programme)

Sunday, August 9
08:45

Welcome

Dr Torgeir Fjeld, Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts

09:00

Keynote

Prof Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea:
“Spirit Is Data: AI, Infinite Judgement, and the Society of Control” Abstract

Moderator: Dror Pimentel

10:00

Session 4 (hybrid): Desire, affect, and the politics of the machinic

Maria Jankowska, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg:
“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Who’s the Phantom in It All? LLMs, Ressentiment, and the Rise of Fascism” Abstract

Claudia Landolfi, Global Centre for Advanced Studies:
“Artificial Alterity, Affective Normativity, and the Micropolitics of Digital Subjectivation” Abstract

Rob Wilkie, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse:
“Writing in Fragments, Thinking in Totality: Class, Alterity, and AI” Abstract

Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld

11:30

Workshop

Liv Tsim, Northumbria University:
“Learning with Microbes in the Age of E‑waste” Abstract

Moderator: Yang Yeung

12:30

Lunch at Hotel Nadmorski (Sign up to our social programme)

14:00

Session 5 (hybrid student session): Assemblage, ontology and the natural/artificial boundary

Marie Nadine Pierre, The European Graduate School-:
“Dread Natty Dreadlock: Natural/Artificial, Compulsory Cyborging, and the Counter-Ontology of One Love” Abstract

Len Krawczyk, Independent:
“Beyond the Black Box: LLM Evaluation Devices as Objects of Enquiry” Abstract

Moderator: Torgeir Fjeld

15:00

Keynote

Prof. Levi Bryant, Collin College, US:
“The Closing of the Unconscious: Connaissance, Savoir, and the New Technology” Abstract

Moderator: Andrew Jorn

16:00

Conference ends