Diffractive writing and knowledge building in posthumanities

Abstract

This article explores the complex relationship between the writing process and knowledge construction at its intersection with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Through a polyphonic dialogue with authors from diverse perspectives, especially within the realm of critical philosophical posthumanisms, it examines the onto-epistemological entanglement between the human and the technical. The article delves into the relationship between alphabetic and algorithmic writing, raising questions and speculations about the emergence of a rhizomatic, diffractive, and performative form of writing. This writing, which combines human imagination with algorithmic 'hallucination,' is proposed as an opportunity to rewrite technoscientific narratives beyond dominant logics.