The Age of Aquarius | Günseli Yalcinkaya

The Internet’s Age of Aquarius: AI, Quantum, and the Return of the Mystical

On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiralling back towards its mystical origins - or is it? In this talk, writer and researcher Günseli Yalcinkaya explores how emerging technologies like AI and quantum are reshaping our collective imagination. She reveals how, today, rational and technoscientific paradigms are disintegrating, producing a strange fusion of accelerationism, psychedelic aesthetics, and magical thinking. This convergence, she argues, generates both utopian visions and dystopian mythologies, blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, folklore and computation, science and spirituality.