Modern societies are not only knowledge societies. They are also ignorance societies.
This book explores one of the central paradoxes of modernity: the same processes that expand knowledge also generate new forms of ignorance. Science, technology, expert systems, global institutions, digital networks, and artificial intelligence have transformed the world. Yet individuals increasingly depend on systems they cannot fully understand.
Agustín Galán Machío develops the figure of Homo Ignorans: the modern subject surrounded by knowledge, but forced to live through trust, delegation, partial understanding, and uncertainty.
Drawing on agnotology and social theory, the book examines how ignorance is socially produced, distributed, concealed, and organized. It analyzes expert systems, globalization, risk, information overload, consumer society, technological black boxes, and networked ignorance.
Revised in the age of artificial intelligence, the book provides a theoretical framework for understanding how modern societies generate knowledge and non-knowledge simultaneously.
Ignorance and the Making of the Modern World is not a rejection of modernity. It is an attempt to understand its hidden underside: the production of non-knowledge within the very societies that call themselves knowledge societies.
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