Critical AI Theory Discussion Lunches
Spring 2026, Tuesdays 12:00–13:00
In the glass house at CDN (Langesgate 1–3). Read the paper in advance, bring your own lunch and let’s talk theory.
| Date | Reading |
|---|---|
| 17 Feb |
Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2026. “Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the New Authoritarianism.”
AI & Society, ahead of print, January 25.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9 #fascism |
| 10 March |
Heuser, Ryan. 2025. “Generative Aesthetics: On Formal Stuckness in AI Verse.”
Journal of Cultural Analytics 10 (3): 1036.
https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.144825 #Fredric Jameson #rhyme #metre #anti-intentionality #materialist #formalist #Marxist Zoom registration link |
| 17 March |
Gunkel, David J. 2025. “The Différance Engine: Large Language Models and Poststructuralism.”
AI & Society, ahead of print, September 25.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02640-z #Derrida #deferral #différance #signifiers #meaning |
| 21 April |
Muldoon, James, and Jul Jeonghyun Parke. 2025. “Cruel Companionship: How AI Companions Exploit Loneliness and Commodify Intimacy.”
New Media & Society, December 18.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251395192 #Lauren Berlant #race #gender |
| 5 May |
Amoore, Louise, Sj Bennett, Alexander Campolo, Benjamin Jacobsen, and Ludovico Rella. 2025.
“Politics of the Prompt: Government in the Age of Generative AI.”
Economy and Society 54 (3): 573–96.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2025.2560177 #governmentality #power #prompt engineering #Ian Hacking #Kate Hayles #technosymbiosis |
| 12 May |
Mollema, Warmhold Jan Thomas. 2025. “AI-Generated Literature, Distant Writing and the Reader: Reflections on Floridi and Calvino.”
Philosophy & Technology 38 (4): 168.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-01008-x #Luciano Floridi #Italo Calvino #distant writing #tarot decks |
| 19 May | ? |