-1 Séances #3: Desire&Technology Reading Group
Schedule
Thu May 21 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Nieuwe Instituut | Rotterdam, ZH
About this Event
What does it mean to desire in an increasingly algorithmic world? What does diversity in relation to societal technological trajectories entail? In the third session of –1 Séances: Desire&Technology, a six-part reading and discussion series by –1 Digital Lab, the reading group will explore the relationship between desire and openness to multiple developmental paths.
In this session, Milan Stürmer analyses Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui’s concept of technodiversity. He attempts to trace a new path between two polarised positions: high skepticism and distrust of technology and technological development on one hand, and the “technophiliac” or technosolutionist mindset typical of Silicon Valley on the other. By taking into account contemporary debates on politics and ecology, the concept of technodiversity allows us to imagine other developmental paths that our society has not taken yet. Through the concept of technodiversity, Milan Stürmer will also reflect on desire as “bifurcations”, or, the openings of new possibilities.
–1 Séances co-organiser Giacomo Gilmozzi will open the session with a brief revisitation of one of Bernard Stiegler’s last texts (Noodiversity, Technodiversity, 2020) in order to highlight how in both Hui’s and Stiegler’s work, philosophical, technological, and political levels of analysis are always necessarily intertwined.
No familiarity with theory or philosophy is required to attend and participate during the open portion of this event.
About Milan Stürmer
Milan Stürmer is a researcher at the Erasmus School of Philosophy in Rotterdam, where he coordinates the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Technology. His work focusses on a critique of the political epistemology and political economy of artificial intelligence systems. Since 2023, he is the vice president of the European Society for Process Thought.
About -1 Digital Lab & –1 Séances
–1 Digital Lab is an experimental space and research studio for digital culture located in the basement of the Nieuwe Instituut. In 2026, –1 Digital Lab is exploring the provocative intersection of technology and desire through the six-part reading and discussion series –1 Séances: Desire&Technology.
Where is it happening?
Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, NetherlandsEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
EUR 0.00
