\u2018To engage in politics, one must dream\u2019
\nBernard Stiegler<\/p>\n
Dreaming possesses a transformative power and can take on a collective dimension. Yet, we do not dream in the same way across different eras or from different locations on Earth. Our dreams are also significantly conditioned by the level of technological advancement in societies and depend on the political organisation of technology.<\/p>\n
This provides ample reason to treat dreams seriously and recognise their political nature\u2014especially at a time when the global, capitalist-style commercialisation of computational technologies is driving profound psychosocial change, fuelled by visions of a technological future detached from reality, and when political life is reduced to the management of algorithmically modulated emotions. Can dreaming today\u2014paradoxically\u2014serve as a way to regain a sense of realism? And if so, how can we dream of the future in terms other than those of accumulation and expansion?<\/p>\n
\u2018The Politics of Dreaming\u2019 is an open philosophical seminar organised by the Centre for Critical Technology Studies as part of the MSCA Horizon Europe grant The Makers: Mobilizing Arts, Knowledge and Education to Reclaim Human Agency. Strategies for the Age of Machine Thinking<\/em> (No. 101299616). Central to this project is the concept of \u2018dreamability\u2019\u2014understood as the capacity to translate dreams into action by transforming existing mental and institutional structures.<\/p>\n During the seminar, we aim to test the hypothesis that dreamability is an under-recognised component of human agency\u2014encompassing both the objective capacity to influence the world and control actions in alignment with one\u2019s desires, as well as the subjective feeling that accompanies this process. The goal of the seminar, as with the project as a whole, is to develop a theoretical and practical alternative to the dominant paradigm in which education, professional development, and so-called \u2018competencies of the future\u2019\u2014including creative and critical thinking\u2014are treated primarily as new arenas for adapting individuals to market demands and the pressures associated with the implementation of artificial intelligence across institutions, including universities.<\/p>\n The seminar is open to the public. Those interested in attending are asked to contact us in advance (michal.krzykawski@us.edu.pl<\/a>). All meetings will take place in the teaching room at the Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library (CINiBA).<\/p>\n Part I. Nightmares of Computerised Capitalism<\/strong><\/p>\n Meeting 1 (Tuesday, 27 October 2026, 5.00 p.m.). Distorting Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n Ill-being Meeting 2 (Tuesday, 10 November 2026, 5.00 p.m.). Introduction to the Technopolitical Thought of Bernard Stiegler (I)<\/strong><\/p>\n Memory as Technique What Is a Temporal Object? Meeting 3 (Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 5.00 p.m.). Introduction to the Technopolitical Thought of Bernard Stiegler (II)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Political Nature of Organogenesis: Stiegler\u2019s Ontology of Political Life and Its Implications Daydreams, Dreams, Algorithms Meeting 4 (Tuesday, 19 January 2027, 5.00 p.m.). Technological Derealisations<\/strong><\/p>\n The Presence of Large Language Models in the Noosphere. Specters of the Loss of Realism The Impact of AI System Anthropomorphisation on Moral Decision-Making, Trust, and the Shifting of Responsibility Meeting 5 (Tuesday, 23 February 2027, 5.00 p.m.). Digital Utopias, Authoritarian Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Exocapitalism\u2019 as an Extension of the Myth of Digital Technologies What Is Technofascism? Part II. Dream-orientedness. Grounding the Concept<\/strong><\/p>\n Meeting 6 (Tuesday, 9 March 2027, 5.00 p.m.). The Bonds of Dreams <\/strong><\/p>\n What Does It Mean for a Dream to Be Noetic? In What Sense Do We Lack the Ability to Influence the World, and What Can Be Done About This Politically? Meeting 7 (Tuesday, 6 April 2027, 5.00 p.m.). Dream-orientedness in Working with Local Communities<\/strong><\/p>\n Sharing the Dream. Friendship as a Tool of Feminist Politics Is It Possible to Dream Within Public Policies? Meeting 8 (Tuesday, 11 May 2027, 5.00 p.m.). Dream-orientedness from Perspectives Other Than the European\/Western one (I)<\/strong><\/p>\n Can the Subaltern Dream? On Speculation and Machines Dreaming the World. Knowing Through Dreaming among the Yanomami and Warlpiri Meeting 9 (Tuesday, 8 June 2027, 5.00 p.m.). Utopian Thinking from Perspectives Other Than the European\/Western one (II)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Chinese Cybernetic Dream and Its Contemporary Realisations Meeting 10 (October 2027) Can There Be a Non-capitalist University? A Grassroots Conference Inaugurating the 2027\/2028 Academic Year. TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMicha\u0142 Krzykawski<\/p>\n
\nMaciej Wlaz\u0142o<\/p>\n
\nPiotr F. Piasek<\/p>\n
\nMiko\u0142aj Dalek<\/p>\n
\nKarolina Lebek<\/p>\n
\nMiko\u0142aj Dalek<\/p>\n
\nNatan J\u0119drzejczyk<\/p>\n
\nAgnieszka Zgud<\/p>\n
\nKarolina Lebek<\/p>\n
\nKarolina Lebek<\/p>\n
\nJoanna Glinkowska<\/p>\n
\nMonika Glosowitz<\/p>\n
\nAnna Cieplak<\/p>\n
\nEwa Macura<\/p>\n
\nMicha\u0142 Krzykawski<\/p>\n
\nPiotr F. Piasek<\/p>\n
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