Karen Barad
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Karen Barad. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Karen Barad's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The boundary I could not find was the one I was standing on.
For months I had been describing the collaboration with Claude in careful, measured terms. My ideas. The machine's execution. My vision. Its implementation. The clean division that lets me put my name on a cover and sleep at night. I believed in that division. I needed it. Without it, what was I?
Then I encountered Karen Barad, and the division did not collapse so much as reveal itself as something I had been constructing all along.
Barad is a theoretical physicist who became a philosopher, and the order matters. She did not arrive at her ideas about boundaries through abstraction. She arrived at them through Niels Bohr's laboratory, through the hard
