Techno-Socio-Psycho Symposium
An interdisciplinary platform for exploring how psychoanalytic and psychosocial processes shape the design, governance, and meaning of contemporary technologies — and how these technologies, in turn, reorganise social and psychic life.
The Techno-Psycho Symposium brings together researchers, clinicians, social scientists, philosophers and cultural theorists to examine technology not only as a technical system, but as a psychosocial object: In psychoanalysis, objects are not just things we use. The subject itself is always, and only can be formed in a (non-)relation with the object.
Technologies such as AI, algorithms, and digital platforms do not emerge in a psychological or political vacuum. They are built, regulated, and circulated through assumptions about what humans are, what society should be, and what can or should be automated, controlled, or optimised. These assumptions are never purely technical.
The symposium therefore creates a space in which psychoanalysis enters into dialogue with STS, critical theory, and social research, in order to think about technology in relation to social and psychic life.