In fact, the agential realist ontology that I propose does not take separateness to be an inherent feature of how the world is. But neither does it denigrate separateness as mere illusion, an artifact of human consciousness led astray. Diff…In what follows, I provide a detailed explication of this agential realist ontology. I begin with a detailed examination of the nature of the apparatus, including two significant analytical shifts that are important emendations to Bohr’s fo…And a thing happens in my head. Exactly where, I say to myself, is Hawking? Am I any closer to him now than I was outside? Who is it doing the talking up there on the stage? In an important sense, Hawking doesn’t stop being Hawking at the e…
Donna Haraway
philosopher · 5 mentions across 2 readings
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Haraway is a foundational theorist of cybernetics and feminist science studies, best known for the "Cyborg Manifesto" and its critique of nature/culture binaries that has deeply shaped how we think about AI and agency. Her work appears in the course readings as a touchstone for understanding how boundaries between human and machine, nature and artifice, are constructed rather than given—a move that underpins both agential realist ontology and contemporary cyberfeminist art practice like VNS Matrix's work. Her theoretical framework enables critical interrogation of how AI systems remake categories of identity, embodiment, and responsibility in ways that matter for both art and society.
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Foreword
Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix
Thirty years ago, four Australian artists wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness text with inspirations ranging from French feminist theory and the cyberpunk writings of William Gibson to Donna Hara…Cyberfeminism captured the imaginations of many who were already thinking about the impacts of technology and cyberculture. Like Haraway’s cyborg, this rising cohort had been rallying against the military-industrial complex, wary of the eme…
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