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Summary: 12th
Biennial International Conference of The Society for Philosophy and Technology
"ATTENTION! THIS BORDER
IS PATROLLED!":
ON NATURALS, ARTIFICIALS, AND THE
POIETIC DIFFERENCE
Syed Mustafa Ali
Computing Department
The Open University
England (UK)
s.m.ali@open.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
According to Haraway (1991), all epistemologies
and ontologies - including their negations `erase'
or `police' difference. Granted the validity of the
previous assertion, it remains questionable whether
axio-teleological orientation to difference,
regardless of whether such orientation is destructive
or conservative, or even difference as such can
function as the ultimate ontological or/and
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