StoryMachine Presented at the DIMAS Workshop on Internet Archetypes

on 14^thNovember 2025, Sabine Slowik (UR) and Marie Veihelmann (LMU) presented StoryMachine at the one-day hybrid workshop “Karens, Tradwives and MechaHitlers: Internet Archetypes as indicators of a transatlantic, collective unconscious?”,

Sabine Slowik and Marie Veihelmann presenting the StoryMachine project at the DIMAS workshop on Internet Archetypes at the University of Regensburg. — We’re calling for contributions tracing the transcultural networks where algorithmic automation and vernacular creativity intertwine.

hosted at the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Areas Studies (DIMAS) at the University of Regensburg by Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin and Dr. Laura Niebling and funded by the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Europe and America in the Modern World”.

The event brought together perspectives from various transatlantic, European and North American academic communities (Germany, US, Canada, Norway) on the topic of Internet Archetypes and post-digital storytelling. The idea of the Web as a new “collective unconscious” was the main approach.

Sabine and Marie discussed the potential of StoryMachine as a tool for investigating Internet Archetypes in transcultural knowledge networks. They addressed the question of how Internet Archetypes reflect underlying psychological needs and how Archetypes function as symbolic condensations of collective psychological needs. The conclusion drawn from this analysis was that StoryMachine is uniquely suited to mapping, exploring and interacting with an “algorithmic unconscious”.

The occasion provided a valuable opportunity to present one of the potential uses of StoryMachine and engage in constructive dialogue with researchers from diverse and complementing disciplines.