But what if the meaning of AI is not to be found in the way it competes with, supersedes or supplants us? What if, like the emergence of network theory, its purpose is to open our eyes and minds to the reality of intelligence as something doable in all kinds of fantastic ways, many of them beyond our own rational understanding?

Technological determinism is the line of thinking which decrees that technological progress is unstoppable.

This is notably counter to the belief – dominant in electoral systems, laboratories, corporations and social organizations – that there exists a mythical best person for the job, capable of engaging with any number of different areas of policy; or some group of ordained experts to whom those of lesser knowledge and experience must defer. It has bee

Technology is the last field of study to discover its ecology. Ecology is the study of the place we find ourselves in, and the relationships between its inhabitants, while technology is the study of what we do there: τέχνη (techne), or craft.

Perhaps the point of technology is not to change us, but to give us the insight and opportunity to change ourselves.

cannot be ignored when it comes to our political actions. Legal representation, reckoning and protection are founded upon human ideas of individuality and identity – but these are anathema to an ecological accounting of the more-than-human world.

A system of laws and protections developed by and for humans, which places human concerns and values at its core, can never fully incorporate the needs and desires of non-humans.

For Barad, the entire universe is a continual process of emergence, in which nothing is certain or fixed, but is always becoming itself through its intra-action with everything else.

Models of progression, advancement, linearity and individuality – models, in short, of hierarchy and dominance – collapse under the weight of actual diversity. Life is soupy, mixed up and tumultuous. Muddying the waters is precisely the point, because it’s from such nutritious streams that life grows. The individual, under the microscope or under t