This section gathers academic papers and presentations on topics such as ignorance studies, epistemology, social theory, and political philosophy. Here you will find abstracts, full texts, and references that expand the core theoretical framework of the blog.
IGNORANT MODERNITY AND HOMO IGNORANS
This paper develops the concepts of Ignorant Modernity and Homo Ignorans as analytical tools for understanding the paradoxical relationship between knowledge and ignorance in contemporary societies. Drawing upon agnotology, sociology of knowledge, risk theory, and theories of modernity, it argues that knowledge and ignorance grow together. Globalization, specialization, digitalization, expert systems, and information overload increase…
Subject, Ignorance, and Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Toward an Integrated Theory of AI-CRACY
This article proposes an integrated theoretical framework for analyzing the transformation of contemporary societies in the age of artificial intelligence
AI-CRACY and the Eight Structural Problems of Artificial Intelligence: Governing the Cyber-Leviathan
This article examines eight structural problems posed by artificial intelligence within contemporary digital societies. Drawing on political theory, agnotology, and the sociology of technology, it argues that AI does not merely enhance existing institutions but transforms sovereignty itself into what is conceptualized here as AI-CRACY: a regime of algorithmic governance characterized by distributed power, opacity,…
The Mass Man, the One-Dimensional Man, and the Social Production of Networked Ignorance
This article examines the paradigms of the mass man (Ortega y Gasset) and the one-dimensional man (Marcuse) as analytical frameworks for understanding the social production of ignorance in contemporary networked societies.
Phenomenological Agnoiology: A theory of ignorance
The term agnoiology, conceived as a General Theory of Ignorance, was coined by James Frederick Ferrier in Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being (1854), a work to which we also owe the term epistemology. In what is commonly described as postmodernity, ignorance has once again become a central concern. It is therefore…
Ignorance and metaphysics at the limits of Quantum Physics and infinitesimal calculus
Ignorance is not confined to religion or metaphysics; it is a pervasive feature of science itself, frequently likened to a bottomless pit. At the very core of Leibniz’s infinitesimal calculus lies a profound ignorance concerning the ultimate limits of reality—an encounter with a concept that is at once nonexistent and yet indispensable to our understanding…
The Meaning of Sense
It is necessary to ask whether the very notion of “sense” possesses any intrinsic meaning at all. As Emil Cioran once observed: “To wake up startled, wondering whether the word ‘sense’ has any meaning, and then to be astonished that one cannot fall back asleep.”
The ‘common sense’ and the meaning of ‘meaning’
Until now, we have persistently asked about the meaning of history and the role played by religious beliefs and ideologies in shaping it, within a world marked by constant change and evolution. With postmodernity, however, new intellectual and emotional frameworks for understanding the world, society, and even the meaning of life itself have emerged. Today…
The epistemology of Artificial Intelligence: An interview with six chatbots Artificial ignorance
This article examines the epistemological framework that emerges from an analysis of responses to a questionnaire administered to six publicly available AI chatbots, focusing on how these systems generate, justify, and structure knowledge in their interactions with users.
The Death of the ‘Subject of History’
The article examines the conceptual distinction between the historical subject and agency (or social agency), and reflects on the gradual disappearance of unified historical subjects, replaced instead by a constellation of social movements that fragment political life in contemporary democracies.
How the ignorant modernity is facing the Global Virus
Why did we not really believe it would happen», when virologists and epidemiologists had announced it, when such influential people as Bill Gates had placed it as the greatest danger we would face in the future, even greater than nuclear weapons?