Liron Mor is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Critical Theory at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel, was published by Fordham University Press in 2024. Her interdisciplinary research spans the fields of critical and political theory, Hebrew and Arabic literatures, translation and visual studies, and critiques of law, conflict, and colonialism. Her publications have appeared in such venues as Comparative Literature, Arab Studies Journal, Theory & Event, Palestine-Israel Review, Qui Parle, and Diacritics. She is currently working on a second book project that examines intentionality as a rhetorical, political, and legal technology of dispossession and racialization as experienced by both Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews. In the academic year 2026/27, Liron is an associated EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien.
The Politics of Intention in the Age of AI
In this “post-truth” age, with its algorithmically generated misinformation and echo-chambers, its AI-operated warfare and decision making, what does intention mean? My current research is concerned with intentionality as a rhetorical and juridical technology of control, colonization, and racialization, which is increasingly entwined with new technological developments that alter the very meaning of intent. My second book project, tentatively titled Intentionality, interrogates truth and its fallacy of intention as a political apparatus in Palestine-Israel and beyond. I build on an interdisciplinary archive to demonstrate how the evaluation of information as true is premised on racialized and gendered positions of intentionality, which are in turn both determined and obscured by these truth-procedures themselves.
