Subject, Artificial Intelligence, and Power
To understand the power of artificial intelligence, we must first understand its ignorance.
This trilogy offers a theoretical framework for understanding one of the most profound transformations of our time: the way artificial intelligence is reshaping knowledge, ignorance, and power in contemporary societies.
From classical theories of the subject to algorithmic governance, these three books examine how digitalization not only expands human capabilities but also reorganizes the very conditions under which we know, decide, and act collectively.
The project is structured around three core dimensions:
- Subjectology reconstructs the concept of the subject in political theory and sociology, arguing that history is not driven by abstractions but by real social subjects—individuals, communities, nations, and civilizations—endowed with identity, memory, and agency. In the digital age, these subjects do not disappear, but they are transformed under new technological conditions.
- Artificial Ignorance introduces a central concept: ignorance not as a mere absence of knowledge, but as a structural product of social—and now algorithmic—systems. Artificial intelligence does not simply process information; it also generates new forms of ignorance, rooted in biases, opacity, and the intrinsic limits of its design.
- AI-CRACY explores the political consequences of this transformation. As algorithmic systems increasingly mediate decision-making across governments, markets, and digital platforms, sovereignty begins to shift toward computational infrastructures. What emerges is a new form of power: the algorithmic management of knowledge and ignorance as a principle of social organization.
Far from utopian or apocalyptic narratives, this trilogy advances a central thesis: artificial intelligence does not eliminate ignorance—it transforms the ways it is produced, distributed, and governed, thereby redefining the foundations of power and democracy.
In an age saturated with information, understanding ignorance—both human and artificial—becomes an essential condition for understanding the world.
Sociology
Horas de piedra
España, años setenta. En los sótanos de la Dirección General de Seguridad, mientras el régimen de Franco se tambalea, un joven estudiante descubre que la historia no es una idea cómo le habían contado sino una experiencia personal. Luis crece entre la fe religiosa, la militancia política y la cárcel. Como tantos, cree que puede…
Ignorant Modernity: Homo Ignorans and the Making of the Modern World
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…
La modernidad ignorante: El Homo Ignorans y la Construcción del Mundo Moderno
El Homo Ignorans es el sujeto moderno rodeado de conocimiento, pero obligado a vivir mediante la confianza, la delegación, la comprensión parcial y la incertidumbre. Este libro explora una de las paradojas centrales de la modernidad: los mismos procesos que expanden el conocimiento generan nuevas formas de ignorancia. La ciencia, la tecnología, los sistemas expertos,…
Agnotology. Sociology of Ignorance, ignorance of Sociology
The study of ignorance. The term ‘agnotology’ (a combination of ‘agnosia,’ meaning ‘lack of knowledge,’ and ‘logos,’ meaning ‘reasoning,’ ‘speech,’ or ‘discourse’) refers to the study of socially produced ignorance. This ignorance can be driven by human motivations, values, objectives, and interests, and it can be the subject of study, classification, and systematization.
Subjectology: Sociology of Social Subjects
The concept of the subject in political science and sociology is examined by the author, who relates the classical contractual theory of the conformation of political society as an implicit pact between individual subjects (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau) and sociological theories (Comte, Durkheim, Gabriel Tarde, Marx, Weber, Talcott Parsons, Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu, Mead, Goffman)…
THEORIES OF IGNORANCE
Books in this series include the author’s thoughts on ‘Being,’ ‘Ignorance,’ and ‘Difference’ from the perspectives of philosophy of science and sociology. The series comprises the following titles: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE The Ultimate Piece of the Universe: The Metaphysical Limits of Physics In this publication, the author examines the domain of elementary particle philosophy, which pertains…
Philosophy of Science
Ignoramus: Philosophical aphorisms and agnoiologisms
This book offers a systematic exploration of the limits of our philosophical and scientific understanding. Through a curated series of aphorisms and reflections, it maps the shifting boundaries between knowledge and ignorance.
Difference and Ignorance : The Eternal Return of Diversity
The secret of life is that it has no single secret—only an infinity of them, each irreducibly different.
Being and Ignorance: Philosophical Theories of ignorance (II)
This book examines whether it is possible to conceptualize “objective” being in a way that transcends the subject–object dichotomy, and whether ignorance might be understood not primarily as a feature of consciousness, but as something expressed in the behavior or dynamics of being itself.
Consciousness and Ignorance: Theory of Ignorance (I)
This two-volume book examines ignorance from complementary philosophical perspectives. The first volume focuses on epistemology, exploring ignorance in relation to knowledge and consciousness, while the second addresses ontology, analyzing ignorance in relation to being. Together, the two volumes approach ignorance as both an epistemological and an existential phenomenon.
Unthinkable World
The philosophical ignorance of Kant, Schopenhauer, Ortega, and Popper. Modernity has returned to Platonic and Socratic ideas that reality is not only what we perceive.
The Last Piece of the Universe
The philosophy of elementary particles (the ultimate reality) through works of popular science published in recent years. Designed to help readers understand the latest discoveries and theories of modern astrophysics
Artificial Ignorance
We are entering an era in which artificial intelligence is reshaping not only what we know, but what we can no longer know — and this book explains why. ‘Artificial Ignorance’ offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding how AI produces, distributes, and governs ignorance in contemporary societies.
Novel
The Stone Years
Hours of Stone is a generational novel about the students who fought Franco’s regime and what remained of their ideals when History swept past them.