Haraway's Informatics of Domination and Technopolitics in the Age of AI (Verónica Mota Galindo)

She knew it even back then...

Donna Haraway’s informatics of domination and technopolitics offer urgent frameworks for critiquing contemporary AI. The informatics of domination—her analysis of how information systems encode and reproduce hierarchies of race, gender, and class—finds stark resonance in today’s algorithmic landscapes, where data extraction, predictive policing, and automated labor management extend historical patterns of surveillance and control under a veneer of neutrality. Meanwhile, technopolitics—the entanglement of technological design with political power—reveals AI not as a neutral tool, but as a site of struggle, where corporate and state actors shape its architecture to serve existing regimes of capital and governance.

This presentation bridges Haraway’s 1980s cyborg theory with 2020s AI debates, arguing that the same systems promising liberation (from bias detection to 'democratized' tools) often reinscribe domination through opaque datasets, biased models, and labor exploitation. Yet, Haraway’s work also invites resistance: technopolitics demands we interrogate who builds AI, for whom, and with what assumptions. By centering marginalized knowledges and refusing the myth of objectivity, we can imagine AI as a contested terrain—one where feminist, decolonial, and labor movements might hack the code of power itself. How might we design AI not as a master’s tool, but as a cyborg ally in the fight for justice?

Dr Verónica Mota Galindo is speaking to us live at Babylon. This talk will be held in English.

About the speaker:

Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg, Verónica Mota Galindo's research interrogates the philosophical underpinnings of technology and advocates for decolonial perspectives, ethical and ecological frameworks.

As a member of the international research collective Human‑Machine, she contributes to a forthcoming 2026 volume on artificial intelligence, representing Latin America with a focus on AI in Mexico. At Freie Universität Berlin she has mentored Bachelor’s and Master’s students teaching critical scientific‑writing methods and responsible and critical use of AI tools as academic practice. She currently pursues advanced degrees in Transdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology, and Society at Technische Universität  and Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.

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