Iman Fadaei

Iman Fadaei is a graduate student fellow and PhD candidate in Sociology and the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought program at the University of Victoria, as well as an Associate Faculty member at Royal Roads University, where he teaches across both institutions.

He prefers to frame his intellectual inquiries as questioning, rather than researching. The guiding question that leads his work these days is the one concerning the relationship between humans and technology. Whether approached ontically, ontologically, epistemologically, or logically, this relationship is of a great significance in making sense of humans, and the world we inhabit. The question is gaining another momentum, specifically with the accelerating advance and prevalence of Artificial Intelligence, where many dimensions of life are experiencing profound re-definitions.

From this guiding inquiry emerges a derivative question pertaining to power and politics within the complex entanglement of humans and technology. A central aspect of Iman's work is thus devoted to uncovering the metaphysical force of domination and abstraction embedded in AI's internal logic of self-referentiality. He explores the quasi-divine position this logic affords to AI and examines its homogenizing-universalizing role in (re)shaping and (re)claiming the global power dynamic—a condition Iman accentuates as Techno-Colonialism.