"Artificial Intelligence, Neofascism and the Challenges of Formation"

The 12th edition of the International Congress on Critical Theory proposes an interdisciplinary analysis of the ethical, political and educational challenges posed by the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rise of neo-fascist tendencies on the global stage. The event will bring together researchers, philosophers, social scientists and educators to discuss how new technologies reconfigure power dynamics, cultural formation and contemporary democratic structures.

Target audience:

Researchers, teachers and students interested in the themes and problems involving the area of ​​Critical Theory of Society.

Main Themes

• Artificial Intelligence and Social Control

• The mechanisms of algorithmic surveillance and their influence on subjectivity.

• The individual-score metric and its relationship with new forms of exclusion.

• The use of AI in the dissemination of disinformation and authoritarian discourses.

• Neofascism and Technology

• The convergence between digital platforms and neofascist movements.

• The instrumentalization of algorithms for political manipulation.

• The crisis of democracy in the context of surveillance capitalism.

• The Challenges of Education (Bildung) in the Digital Age

• The redefinition of critical education in the face of the hegemony of big techs.

• Possibilities of emancipatory digital literacy.

• The role of the humanities in resisting the technification of social relations.

Event Structure

• Keynote lectures with experts in critical theory, philosophy of technology and social sciences.

• Roundtables on the thematic axes of the congress.

• Presentation of academic works (oral communications).