Haraway, Suchman, Barad, Hayles, and the theoretical foundations of relational and responsible AI.
Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning is a groundbreaking work that brings together quantum physics, feminist theory, and philosophy to reconceptualize…
In 1987, while most theoretical physicists were chasing theories of everything, Karen Barad was studying something more unsettling: how the very act of looking changes what you see. The UC Santa Cruz Professo'rs…
* AI outputs are not universal truths; they’re situated in data, prompts, cultural and relational neural net probabilities that produced them. Knowing the context opens space for human/ai co-presence and co-design…
In the late summer of 2025, as Silicon Valley executives herald the arrival of GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.1. Proclamations announce - breakthrough, "agentic" intelligence. In a small office, also in California, a…
"We became posthuman when we began to think that consciousness, rather than embodiment, is what defines the human."
"Situated actions are always concrete instances of plans, but they are not determined by them."
From her perch on the bluffs at California's Natural Bridges State Beach, Donna Haraway watches waves gather their potential energy towards the coastline. She reflects as the superposition of foam and force, carry…
In 1985, Donna Haraway, a biologist and feminist theorist at UC Santa Cruz, published an essay that would become one of the more influential texts in science technology and society studies: "A Cyborg Manifesto." At…