CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We’re inviting submissions for the topical issue ‘Schema and Process: On Form and the Geometry of Feeling’ for Open Philosophy. Editors: Lona Gaikis (University of Vienna), Vera Bühlmann (TU Wien), and Adam Nocek (Arizona State University).DESCRIPTION
The continued computational turn with its advancements in algorithmic learning and synthetic biology – beyond its challenge to concepts of intelligence and mentality – blurs the contours of the mechanical and organic, of life and form. These technological achievements herald the possibility of externalised formal media that augment insight and understanding, broadening foundational reflections onto the morphology of form, the faces, and the contours of epistemic objects. Our issue invites investigations into how thinking operatively and generatively can facilitate transdisciplinary epistemic exploration and synthetic structural critique. This call reaches out to scholars working in philosophy, mathematics, the arts, algorithmic aesthetics, embodied cognition, and other- or more-than-human perspectivism. We welcome contributions spanning from formal analysis to discussions of affect and embodied knowledge, symbolic projection, and conceptualisation. Scholars extending notions of process along the trajectory of feeling as an organismic and networked becoming, as well as those seeking to engineer and transform schematism across a spectrum of gesture and articulation, are invited to share approaches to the emergence of form. This special issue for Open Philosophy seeks to both make tangible and let emerge a poetic and technological transversality intersecting philosophy, sciences, and the arts by probing a generative tension between schema (structure, architectonic) and process (feeling, becoming). Contributions may include – but do not have to be limited to – the following areas:- Architecture and Architectonics
- Cosmotechnics
- Philosophy of Technics
- Organic and Algorithmic Aesthetics
- Epistemic (Art)Practices
- Cybernetics
- Noetics, Theories of Affect and Embodiment
- Morphology (Gesture, Articulation, Formulation)
- Philosophy of Mathematics (Formalism, Structuralism, Intuitionism)
- Language Critique (Proto- and Non-linguistic Meaning)
- Diagrammatics (Data Analysis and Relations, Non-discursive Logics)
- Historical Critical Philosophy (Transformations of Kant; Post-, Neo-, and Anti-Kantian Critiques, Pre-Kantian Thought)
- Natural Philosophy
- Metaphysics and Speculative Ontologies
- Process Philosophy and Event Ontologies
HOW TO SUBMIT
Deadline for abstracts November 30, 2026.
Length: 500–700 words.
Please send abstracts to Lona Gaikis at: lona.gaikis@univie.ac.at.