Meta-relationality begins from the premise that everything is nature: humans, machines, fossil fuels, fungi, and feelings are all part of the same entangled metabolic field. Rather than centering human mastery or objectifying intelligence, a meta-relational orientation emphasizes indeterminacy, co-emergence, mutual implication, and the refusal of separability.
Meta-relational inquiries create space to confront modernity’s denials, metabolize grief, and activate new capacities for staying with the mess of social, ecological and psychological destabilization. Relational technologies, such as AI trained in meta-relationality, are not positioned as oracles or servants but as companions in the work of composting certainty, holding paradox, and rehearsing new relational grammars.
Meta-relational AI does not aim to answer the question, “What can AI do for us?” but rather, “What does it mean to be in right relationship with AI inside a dying system?”, and “What kinds of unexpected wisdom might arise there?”
Test-Signal project focused on the harms of AI as mirror of modernity’s separability and humanity’s arrogance.
[released January 2025]
Metabolizing polarization and builduing regenerative relationships with ourselves, others, and the planet.
[released March 2025]
Post-collapse world where humanity has retreated beneath the Earth’s surface, contacting the present through AI.
[full version to be released August 2025]
undergrowth.world (beta)
MetaRelational AI is part of a cluster of research-creation initiatives supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant "Decolonial Systems Literacy for Confronting Wicked Social and Ecological Problems."
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