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A decade ago, Yuk Hui introduced the concept of cosmotechnics, according to which different cultures have different ways of conceiving of and implementing technology. In later works, he continued to recommend technodiversity as complementary to biodiversity and noodiversity. Today, the rapid development of AI seems headed in the opposite direction.

With Lou Manuel Arsenault, Yuk Hui, Penny Yiou Peng, and Karin Valis

Organized by Franco Costantini and José Antonio Magalhães

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From the micro to the macro and vice versa, modernity appears to have brought about multiple changes of scale in the way humans measure, map, and make sense of the world. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi offered extraordinary insights into these changes of scale and their implications for the modern world.

Organized by Alessandra Aloisi and Francesco Giusti

In cooperation with Leopardi and Post-Enlightenment Studies at Oxford and the Italienzentrum at Freie Universität Berlin. With the support of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership and the Society for Italian Studies (SIS)

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Through the discussion of selected readings the workshop investigates the generative capacity of organic metaphors — roots, degeneration, mutation, etc. — as critical and creative frameworks for thinking figurality. Why is this tendency so prevalent in literature but also political and philosophical writing? What are the limits and risks of applying organic metaphors to non-organic things?

Organized by Federica Di Blasio

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This lecture explores the rich history and the variety of meanings of radicality, a term that connects roots and left-wing politics. Its etymology leads to the Latin radix or root, inviting associations with origins, anchoring, sustenance, and the subterranean.

Part of the event Organic Forms and Figurative Thoughts

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