In preparation for the opening of the site in 2026, The Feral Summer Workshops return for their second edition on July 19 and 20, 2024.

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In July 2023, during the first meetings of The Feral Institute (Foundations I: Parenting the Inhuman), our objective was to explore the anthropological and political consequences of the technological paradigm marked by the current emergence of generative Artificial Intelligences. Contrary to any fascination with what machines might potentially produce, we aimed to acknowledge an unprecedented situation in the ongoing history of our hominization: as every word, gesture, and emotion of ours is scrutinized by learning machines, we have collectively become the parents of an inhuman childhood. In continuous tension with the artistic and speculative dimension of The Feral project, the goal was to uncover the emancipatory and practical potentials of such a paradigm. 

During these initial events, the following individuals participated: Tristan Garcia (philosopher and writer), Anna Longo (philosopher), AA Cavia (philosopher of computation), Patricia Reed (art theorist, designer, and artist), Grégory Chatonsky (artist and theorist of artificial intelligences), Amanda Beech (artist and theorist),

Inigo Wilkins and Sonia de Jager (researchers), Luc Saucier (jurist), as well as the founding team of The Feral (Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni, artists; Anne Stenne, curator; and Ida Soulard, art historian and theorist).

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For this second meeting on July 19 and 20, 2024, these conversations will continue by exploring the temporal dimension at the heart of The Feral. For while we deliberately qualify the multiple specific crises that traverse it (economic, political, social), a more encompassing crisis seems often omitted from our analyses: that of a profound transformation in our intimate perception of time and thus, what we are able to conceive as "possible". Our present is the site of collision of three perfectly heterogeneous types of time: human time, machine time, and earth time. Through a series of meetings, conferences, and workshops led by actors from diverse fields such as the philosophy of time, computer science, and archo-botany, we will strive to uncover what this temporal crisis, and the subjective upheaval it induces, also promises for our transformation. 

This year, we will be joined by: Boris Groys (philosopher, art theorist, and essayist), Grégory Chatonsky (artist and artificial intelligence theorist), Chiara Vecchiarelli (philosopher and curator), Michael Marder (philosopher), Stéphanie Thiebault (CNRS research director, paleo and archaeobotanist), Daniel Van der Velden (co-founder of Metahaven), Gaspar Claus (musician and composer), as well as the founding team of The Feral (Fabien Giraud, artist; Anne Stenne, exhibition curator; and Ida Soulard, art historian and theorist).