We live in a hypermediated and increasingly technical world, yet our imaginaries of technological possibility remain constrained by defunct assumptions, inherited paradigms, and legacies of ideational debt. Material and symbolic infrastructures mutate; sociotechnical systems proliferate; but conceptual vocabularies often lag behind. Strangeways Idea Lab is a multidisciplinary working group that explores strange new ways of thinking about technics and technology.
SESSION 2
(2026–2027)
2.1
(early September 2026)
Karl Marx – “Fragment on Machines”
2.2
(late September–early October 2026)
Laura Tripaldi – Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials
Bogna Konior – The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
2.3
(mid-November 2026)
Gilbert Simondon – On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1)
2.4
(late November–early December 2026)
Gilbert Simondon – On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (2)
2.5
(late January 2027)
Luciano Floridi and J.W. Sanders – “On the Morality of Artificial Agents”
Yuk Hui – “What Is a Digital Object?”
2.6
(March 2027)
Benjamin Bratton – The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (1)
2.7
(April 2027)
Benjamin Bratton – The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (2)
2.8
(April 2027)
Define Session 3 (2027–2028)
