It’s been almost eight years since Alexander Galloway and Yuk Hui came together at diffrakt to discuss a broad variety of questions concerning the nature of the analogue and the digital. This summer, we’ll make an experiment in difference and repetition: for the first time ever, we’ll host the exact same constellation of people again.

Yet this evening will (most likely) not be a reenactment. As the world has changed in the meantime, Alex and Yuk will return for a reassessment. Has the rapid mainstreaming of so-called AI in its various forms over the past few years changed the relations between the analogue and the digital? Has it changed our conception of what is called thinking, both in analytic and synthetic modes? What are AI’s social and technological axioms, whether acknowledged or unacknowledged, and how do they influence contemporary socio-technics?