CFP: The Digital Worlds Workshop

We invite submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 24-26 2026 . We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds.

The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding. People can increasingly be said to “live on their phones” or other devices. This workshop aims to interrogate the meaning and structure of the world and the self as mediated by such devices.

This year, we are especially interested in papers concerned the problem of embodiment in digital worlds and digital art practices, with a particular focus on how philosophy can engage with and draw lessons from contemporary artistic practices. By thematizing the workshop around embodiment, the aim is twofold: to advance a burgeoning, interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges and innovative possibilities of 're-locating' human embodied experience and practice within the digital domain, and to arrive at a robust, systematic understanding of just what such a relocation supposes and entails - is there indeed anything such as 'digital embodiment' at all?

We invite submissions on these and other themes from a variety of perspectives such as environmental philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of technology, or social and political philosophy.

The purpose of this workshop is to collaboratively develop works-in-progress with an eye toward publication. This is a pre-read workshop with each paper having a designated commenter to lead the conversation, rather than formal conference presentations. We invite extended abstract submissions of approximately 500 words by February 3rd 2026. We also invite expressions of interest to be a commenter on a paper, independent of a submission (it is not necessary to submit a paper to provide commentary). The discussion draft of the papers will be required one month in advance of the meeting for everyone to pre-read and for commenters to review and prepare feedback.

Abstracts and any questions should be submitted to: [email protected]

Further information, including programs from past workshops, can be found at

https://digitalworldsworkshop.com/