The conference proposes to revisit current strategies of deletion both in the service of power (however we may define it) and for the purpose of resistance, refusal, or, more radically, as forms of negation of existing power structures. There are efforts across disciplines to showcase both how the current online regime deletes certain memories, histories, subjectivities, and forms of labour (Lingel 2021, Thylstrup 2025) and how creative strategies may rupture or perforate the relentless deluge of images, sounds, and texts (Dekeyser and Culp 2023, Klik 2026).
Our aim is to collectively reflect on, and experiment with, infrastructures, methodologies, and epistemologies in which deleting can once again operate as a meaningful cultural and political act.