Spider the Artist
AI & Robotics Alternative Ways of Knowing Colonialism Environment & Climate Ethics & Governance Future of Work Toolkit Stories
The story “Spider the Artist” portrays such a capitalist society as its extraction of oil hurts both humans and the nonhuman in the web of life. Jason W. Moore (2025) argues that humans and nature are interlinked in a web; in that sense, human-made nature and nature-made human. This interlink could account for this: in…
Kegbara- dere community oil spill, Ogoniland, Nigeria. Source: Wiki
Suggested discussion points
- What is the link between world-system and domestic violence in the story, and what policies could be adopted to mitigate this violence?
- Should self-sustaining AI have equal rights to humans? Discuss AI safeguarding and the lack of it in the story.
- Discuss the implications of surveillance technology in the story.
Workshop guides
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Critiquing policy documents using African Speculative Fiction
This method is designed to help communities of people critique and update STEM policy. It is useful for a group of mixed abilities and experiences i.e. not only for people with professional policy-making experience Time required: recommended minimum time of 2 hours
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