{"id":88,"date":"2025-10-10T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:50:19","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/ouro-preto\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"274\">Ouro Preto, Brazil<\/a>&nbsp;for the American Society for Cybernetics conference,&nbsp;<em>Conversational Confluences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confluence, as articulated by Brazilian thinker and activist <a href=\"https:\/\/ea.fflch.usp.br\/en\/author\/antonio-bispo-dos-santos#:~:text=Nego%20Bispo%2C%20as%20he%20is,gives%2C%20the%20land%20wants%5D%20(\">Nego Bispo<\/a>, provides a framework for reflecting on how diverse worldviews, practices, and epistemologies can coexist without losing their distinct identities. Rather than assimilation or homogenization, confluence is about mutual amplification, where differences are not obstacles but sources of strength. Like rivers merging to become stronger, this coming together creates new, more resilient possibilities of coexistence. Rooted in decolonial and counter-hegemonic struggles, the concept invites us to imagine collaborations that foster plurality and the emergence of new systems of living and knowing. Building on this understanding, the ASC 2026 meeting seeks to explore how cybernetics can participate in such confluences \u2014 through encounters and experiments that bring it into dialogue with art, design, technology, ecology, and situated knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/call-for-participation\/\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\">Call for Participation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/conference-tracks\/\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\">Conference Tracks<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in&nbsp;Ouro Preto, Brazil&nbsp;for the American Society for Cybernetics conference,&nbsp;Conversational Confluences. Confluence, as articulated by Brazilian thinker and activist Nego Bispo, provides a framework for reflecting on how diverse worldviews, practices, and epistemologies can coexist without losing their distinct identities. Rather than assimilation or homogenization, confluence is about mutual amplification, where differences are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-88","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/88\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.asc-cybernetics.org\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}