We are glad to give notice of the International Conference in Honor of Slavoj Žižek Knowledge Without Comprehension? On Spirit after Hegel in the Age of AI, which will take place at the Munich School for Philosophy on 21-23rd May 2026. The conference is organised by Professor Dominik Finkelde SJ.
Limited places available. To register, please email hegelonai@gmail.com
For further information please visite the event’s website.
Below you can find the program of the event.
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Thursday, 21 May 2026
Section I – Hegel, Synthetic Spirit and Algorithmic RationalityTransformation of Knowledge and the Limits of Comprehension
13.00 – 13.30 Welcome and Introduction, The Present as a Vanishing Mediator, Dominik Finkelde
13.30 – 14.30 Andrew Cutrofello (Chicago), The Only Possible Basis for a Proof of the Existence of AI: Why Kant rather than Hegel baptized Marx
14.30 – 15.30 Dirk Quadflieg (Leipzig), There Is No I in AI. Spirit as the Split of the Subject
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00 Mladen Dolar (Ljubljana), The Universal Irony of the World. Hegel, Irony and Computation
17.00 – 18.00 Frank Ruda (Dundee), Systems of Math Destruction
18.00 – 19.00 Adrian Johnston (Albuquerque), Between Transcendentalism and Dialectical Materialism: Reflections on Zizek’s Quantum History
Friday, 22 May 2026
Section II – Digital Capitalism, Alienation and Power Normativity and Ideology in the Age of AI
09.30 – 10.30 Daniel Feige (Stuttgart), The Becoming of Falsehood. McDowell, Adorno and Rationality in the Age of AI
10.30 – 11.30 Thomas Khurana (Potsdam), The Automation of Ideology
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.00 Michael Reder (München), Vulnerable Reason and the Critique of Artificial Intelligence: Toward a Negative Epistemology of Relationality
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.30 Rahel Jaeggi (Berlin), tba
Section III – Inhuman Subjectivity, Lacan and the Machine The Unconscious of the Concept and the Algorithmic Other
15.30 – 16.30 Luca Di Blasi (Bern), Floating Suspicion. After the Second Death of the Author
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.00 Key Lecture: Slavoj Žižek (London), Should We Grasp AI Not Only as Substance But Also as Subject?
18.00 – 18.30 Panel-Talk: Christoph Menke, Slavoj Žižek, Dominik Finkelde
Saturday, 23 May 2026
09.00 – 10.00 Jure Simoniti (Ljubljana), On the Origin of Time. On Žižek’s Retroactivity and Predestination
10.00 – 11.00 Russell Sbriglia (South Orange), Geist in the Machine; or, Does AI Dream of Coffee without Cream?
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Alenka Zupančič (Ljubljana), Subjectivity Without a Subject
12.30 – 13.30 Dominik Finkelde (München), Negativity and Self-Reference. On the Retroactive Emergence of AI Subjectivity
13.30 Farewell
