Our workshop, Political Theology and Technology, will be held at Conference Room 地下会議室 in the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University on Saturday, April 25, 2026.
14:30-14:45 Welcome words and introduction (by Norihito Nakamura 中村 徳仁, Kyoto)
14:45-15:30 Speaker 1 Mario García Pascual (Rotterdam):
“Notes on Neoreaction and the Philosophy of History of Technology.”
(15 min. break)
15:45-16:30 Speaker 2 Takuya Umeda 梅田 拓也 (Kyoto):
"Why Can We Speaking of "Europe"?: Toward an Application of late Kittler's Theory"
(15 min. break)
16:45-17:30 Speaker 3 Constantijn-Alexander Kusters (Rotterdam):
"Political Theology and Systemic Pathology"
(15 min. break)
17:45-18:30 Speaker 4 Hamza Faraz Karamat (Kyoto)
"New Media of Attraction: Ecology in an Age of Screens."
18:30-19:00 General Discussion and Closing
Moderators: Yugo Takasaki 髙﨑 雄悟, Taiyo Wada 和田太洋
Co-organized by Research Association for Political Theology and Technology, Everyday Research Group, Nakamura Norihito and Fernando Wirtz