Programm

Preliminary Program

Thursday, 21 May 2026

Section I – Hegel, Synthetic Spirit and Algorithmic Rationality

Transformation of Knowledge and the Limits of Comprehension

13.30 – 14.30 Andrew Cutrofello (Chicago)
The Only Possible Basis for a Proof of the Existence of AI: Why Kant rather than Hegel baptized Marx

14.30 – 15.30 Dirk Quadflieg (Leipzig)
There Is No I in AI. Spirit as the Split of the Subject

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 – 17.00 Mladen Dolar (Ljubljana)
The Universal Irony of the World. Hegel, Irony and Computation

17.00 – 18.00  Frank Ruda (Dundee)
Systems of Math Destruction

Friday, 22 May 2026

Section II – Digital Capitalism, Alienation and Power

Normativity and Ideology in the Age of AI

09.30 – 10.30 Daniel Feige (Stuttgart)
The Becoming of Falsehood. McDowell, Adorno and Rationality in the Age of AI

10.30 – 11.30 Thomas Khurana (Potsdam)
The Automization of Ideology

11.30 – 12.00  Coffee break

12.00 – 13.00  Michael Reder (München)

Vulnerable Reason and the Critique of Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Negative Epistemology of Relationality

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 15.30 Rahel Jaeggi (Berlin)
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Section III – Inhuman Subjectivity, Lacan and the Machine

The Unconscious of the Concept and the Algorithmic Other

15.30 – 16.30  Todd McGowan (Burlington, online)

Understanding All: Artificially Eliminating Dialectics

16.30 – 17.00  Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00 Key Lecture: Slavoj Žižek (London)
Should We Grasp AI Not Only as Substance But Also as Subject?

18.00  – 18.30   Panel-Talk: Christoph Menke, Slavoj Zizek, Dominik Finkelde

Saturday, 23 May 2026

09.30 – 10.30  Russell Sbriglia (South Orange)
Geist in the Machine; or, Does AI Dream of Coffee without Cream?

10.30 – 11.30 Alenka Zupančič (Ljubljana)
Subjectivity Without a Subject

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break

12.00 – 13.00 Dominik Finkelde (München)
Still Seeing What Will Soon Become Invisible: The Present as a Vanishing Mediator

13.00 Farewell