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July 2025

Theorizing Artificial Intelligence and Sociology of the Future

Werner Binder took part in the ISA Conference Sociology of the Future /
The Future of Sociology with the paper: Theorizing Artificial Intelligence: The Cultural Construction of Intentionality and Agency.

May 2025

Relationship between metaphors and autism therapy research

How do metaphors and analogies influence research of autism therapy? Ilaria Fornacciari explored this relationship and more in her talk "Mirroring Mechanical Metaphors: Materials for an Archaeology of “Emotional Competence”, from Asperger to Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy (RAAT)".

December 2024

Affective technologies as a contemporary topic of biopolitics

In November 2024, Ilaria Fornacciari participated in the Second International Symposium on Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age with her talk titled "In Real Time: Affective Technologies and the Epistemology of the Cognitive Subject" (presented online).

December 2024

Foucault in debate with Critical post-humanism

In October 2024, Ilaria Fornacciari presented her talk "Techniques and Technologies from Archeological Analysis to Critical Posthumanism” at the Conference on the History of the Philosophy of Technology at Maastricht University, Netherlands.

October 2024

Modern AI entities and the boundaries of the social world

Werner Binder presented his talk “Artificial Intelligence and the Boundaries of the Social World” at the 18th International Conference on Sociocybernetics at Krakow University of Economics in June 2024.

October 2024

Queering Autism

In July 2024, Eva Theunissen presented her talk “Queering Autism” at the EASST-4S organised by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

October 2024

Affective technologies through the lens of critical post-humanism

In September 2024, Ilaria Fornacciari participated in the Robopolitics international conference with her talk titled "Mapped in real time: Affective Technologies and the Post-human Subjectivity".

June 2024

International conference & workshop “Foucault40” debates the current themes and practises of posthumanism

On 30th – 31th of May 2024, the international on-site conference & workshop “Foucault40” took place at Faculty of Social Sciences (MU, Brno).