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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Donna Haraway is a theorist of technoscience, feminism, and multispecies relations whose "Cyborg Manifesto" fundamentally reframes how we think about boundaries between nature and culture, human and machine. In this course, her work appears as a foundational inspiration for cyberfeminist artistic practice (cited in VNS Matrix's manifesto) and implicitly underpins discussions of agential realism and the entanglement of observer and observed in systems that refuse clean separations. Her cyborg figure—simultaneously biological and technological, personal and collective—offers a crucial conceptual tool for thinking through how AI and cybernetic systems challenge humanist notions of autonomous agency and embodied selfhood.
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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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