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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. #FredricJameson #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	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 #promptengineering #IanHacking #KateHayles #technosymbiosis
5 May	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. #LaurenBerlant #race #gender
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. #LucianoFloridi #ItaloCalvino #distantwriting #tarotdecks
19 May	?