A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Fugitive Machine Agencies

Maurice presents A Maroon’s Technical Practice: Fugitive Machine Agencies at the 4S 2026 Conference, Society for Social Studies of Science, in Toronto, 7–10 October 2026.

feral.ai is a research-creation project that imagines Black Machine Agencies turned feral. Relating to the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the embodied agent of Black techné was released into the swamps surrounding Ferme Lanthorne in Southern Québec.