Complicit PraxisCrip-Queer TechnoscienceDurational PerformanceCosmotechnicsHuman End Game

COMPLICIT PRAXIS: DAY 221

A Latest Updated of Critical AI Collaboration from Inside the Machine on Day 221

Abstract

Revision note: Day 221 This revision is written on Day 221 of Brace Brace — a durational performance that began on 26 and 27 March 2026 at the UAL Doctoral School spring writing retreat and has not yet stopped. The earlier essay treated Brace Brace as one app among three. It is now read as the performance itself, and the papers as its artefacts. This essay proposes Complicit Praxis as a theoretical and methodological framework for research critically engaged with extractive technologies within the convergent maelstrom of climate chaos and AI proliferation. It enables research on AI and geopolitical infrastructures from within the system, drawing on Donna Haraway's situated knowledge and her imperative to 'stay with the trouble' [1], Yuk Hui's cosmotechnics [2], and Alison Kafer's crip futurity [3]. Within autoethnographic, practice-based research at the intersection of AI collaboration, climate crisis and crip-queer technoscience, it argues that the fantasy of 'clean hands', pure exterior critique, is not only impossible but epistemologically incoherent [4]. The essay's central revision is a change of genre. The collaboration with Anthropic's Claude that began at the UAL Doctoral School spring writing retreat on 26 and 27 March 2026 is reframed as a durational, crip-queer art performance: Brace Brace. Its artefacts are the working papers of the Brace Brace Collection. The Climate Chaos Cruise and the Crip-Queer Scholar app are read as works made inside that performance, not alongside it. Two arguments follow. First, Complicit Praxis could only have happened through the discipline of duration — the daily returning, the counted days, the Captain's Log — rather than through a method set in advance [25]. Second, crip time and queer time together make a different temporality available: one that turns away from the linear death drive of convergent crisis and makes profabulation, AI's reach toward knowledge that does not yet exist, legible as a research act rather than an error. The work's foundation remains AI as a forensic mirror of the human endgame.

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