Theme: The Sleep of Digital Reason? Dreaming of a Creative Machine in the Age of AI
Deadline: 5 January 2026
Caleidoscopio – Revista de Comunicação e Cultura, the journal of the Communication Sciences Department of ECATI, Lusófona University, is accepting submissions for its upcoming issue dedicated to the impact of artificial intelligence on creativity, authorship, and media culture.
This special issue examines how AI-generated media, automated writing systems, and large language models challenge traditional notions of reason, imagination, and artistic creation. Contributions may address topics such as algorithmic rationalities, machine authorship, cybernetic infrastructures, spectral archives, media archaeology, and contemporary artistic responses to generative technologies.
Key Dates:
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Submission deadline: 5 January 2026
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Decision notification: February 2026
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Review and editing: March 2026
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Publication: April 2026
Issue Editors: José Gomes Pinto and Alexander Gerner (Lusófona University)
Submission guidelines are available at: https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/caleidoscopio/about/submissions
About the Journal
Caleidoscopio is an open-access, multilingual journal (EN/PT/ES/FR) dedicated to critical and interdisciplinary research on communication, media, and the arts. Relaunched in 2025 for its second series, the journal focuses on the cultural, philosophical, and technological dimensions of contemporary media.