Cybernetic Culture Workshop 2026
Call for papers
An interdisciplinary workshop exploring the concealed infrastructures, affective economies, and communal platforms that thrive beneath surface levels of the internet.
Workshop Format​
The workshop will provide an open, collaborative space for sharing ideas and fostering dialogue between those working across consumer culture, marketing, cyber-security, media studies, cultural theory, and the digital humanities.
Sessions will combine oral presentations and roundtable discussions centred on conceptual, crticial, creative, and empirical approaches to the study of cybernetic culture and its discontents.
This is an opportunity to exchange ideas, gain constructive feedback, and contribute to an expanding interdisciplinary conversation about the cultural, ethical, and critical dimensions of the digital world.
Core Themes​
Subcultural Deviance and Digital Publics
Visibility, Exposure, and Control
AI Intimacy and Algorithmic Desire
Dark Economies and Data Shadows
Digital Emotion and Affective Systems
Submission deadline: Friday 23 January, 2026