Agenda

28-29 September 2026

The symposium ‘Dysphoria Mundi: making and breaking world models’ seeks to engage with the promissory ambitions of world models, and the estrangement they produce. Models built to understand, know, and inhabit the world often do not fit the beings that should be living through them. Following Paul B. Preciado, this misfit presents itself as a dysphoria. Rather than interpreting such dysphoria as mere errors to be corrected, or a condition to either accept or resist, Dysphoria Mundi asks what this very misfitting reveals about the structural exclusions operated by these models, the dimensions they 'shallow out', and the possibilities for praxis their opacity, paradoxically, opens up. Dysphoria Mundi seeks to explore such limits and possibilities by thinking through four intersecting strands of inquiry concerned with world models, and world modelling more broadly.

Scientific committee

• Matteo Pasquinelli
• Raffaele Andrea Buono
• Giovanni Fava
• Leonardo Impett
• Giulia Flenghi
• Valentine Bernasconi
• Violaine Boutet de Monvel

Organizing Committee

• Beatrice Spampinato
• Cosimo De Matteis
• Elsa Gigliotti

For further information: www.unive.it/dysphoriamundi