D.A.K.I.N.I. project

How can AI serve Feminist Theory and life? How can women take control of it?
What does happen after they take control of it? What do women want to pass on to future generations?
DNS · The Necessary Teacher Training College was approached by the performing arts collective AjaRiot who asked us if we would like to be part of their new project D.A.K.I.N.I. which is a “multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary project aims at investigating and creating dialectic bridges between the theme of Artificial Intelligence and contemporary Feminist Theories”.

The DNS 2018 team were of course delighted to participate in the project!

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D.A.K.I.N.I. is inspired by the Cyber-Feminism of Donna J. Haraway. She proposes a virtual body, that is, a highly technologized corporeity combined with the objectives of the feminist movement.

The cyber world we are living in has dissolved the organic world into a series of electronic flows that control our existence: from bank transactions to medical biotechnologies, up to the most varied forms of depersonalised communication.

Philosopher exhorts to see technology not as an opposing a priori, enemy to humanity and human sciences. It is as if a kind of primitive anthropomorphism has pervaded the universe of technology: all the technological instruments are therefore products of the creative human imagination, they copy and multiply the potential capacities of the body.

Read more about the D.A.K.I.N.I. project here.