Critical frameworks shape how we perceive and interpret cultural production. This section features conversations that challenge conventional boundaries between disciplines, and prioritize what complicates dominant narratives, challenging the frameworks that govern scholarly and critical discourse alike to reveal the intellectual networks that connect seemingly dissimilar cultural elements.
Spring 2026
Uncertainty as a Condition of Intelligence — Bogna Konior
In this conversation we challenge the assumption that intelligence reveals itself through language, proposing instead a model of concealment.
Summer 2026
How Unlike Us: Machine Minds — Philip Ball
In this conversation we revisit "Machine Minds" four years on, examining why the apparent similarities between AI systems and human cognition are products of design rather than convergence, and what is lost when we forget the difference.
Autumn 2026
On Platform Brutality and Uncool the Apps — Geert Lovink
In this conversation we ask why the apps are still cool, tracing how critical figures are built, why disconnection resolves nothing, and what position the work of invention quietly presupposes.