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This lecture will introduce works of erotic mysticism written by various female Christian mystics from the Middles Ages until the 20th century. Additionally, I will discuss how these mystics can be seen as proto-thinkers of cyberfeminism, specifically around the questions of inhuman causality (stigmata), AI erotics (angel sex), and asexual reproduction (immaculate conception).
Through a discussion of original mystical writings in relation to contemporary occult cyberculture theory, I aim to reclaim their contribution to the philosophy of technology and present them as paradigmatic thinkers for the coming era of machine erotics and the posthuman internet.
Speakers
Bogna Konior is an Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of IMA at NYU Shanghai. She writes about how humans conceptualize the inhuman, and investigates how this influences our imagination of the purpose of technology and the arts in both the social and existential sense. In addition to the impact of digital culture on the human species, she is also interested in technopolitical formations that diverge from the dominant model of global (technological) progress dictated by the post-Cold War consensus. Previously, she was a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Amsterdam, a Fellow at The International Research Institute for Cultural Techniques and Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and a Visiting Researcher at the ICON Centre for the Humanities, University of Utrecht.
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