Aug 2026· Общество философия история культура· pp. 55-64· 0 citations
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The article provides a comprehensive socio-philosophical analysis of the macrostructural transition from clas-sical platform capitalism to digital technofeudalism and proposes a three-level positive program of algorithmic resistance based on the practices of deliberate “de-immunization”, counter-functioning, and the preservation of “cognitive anomaly”.
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The article provides a comprehensive socio-philosophical analysis of the macrostructural transition from clas-sical platform capitalism to digital technofeudalism. The author explores the ontological paradox of the current historical conjuncture – the phenomenon of “bureaucratized singularity”, wherein the rapid development of sub-symbolic generative systems and AI architectures coexists with a regressive shift of social institutions to-ward quasi-medieval forms. Within the framework of a macrosociological analysis, the network is conceptual-ized as a Digital Archipelago of sovereign fortress-spheres controlled by transnational digital lords (Yandex, Sber, OpenAI, etc.) that extract platform rent from users (“digital serfs”). At the micro-level of everyday life, the article explicates the anthropological mutation of the governing apparatus – the emergence of the subject of cynical rationality (P. Sloterdijk), who utilizes the discourse of “security” to capture regulatory mechanisms and monopolize cognitive infrastructure. Through the lens of V. Flusser’s media philosophy, the article deconstructs the microphysics of subordination via “dark patterns” of UX/UI design, which leads to the expropriation of the Homo Faber’s cognitive sovereignty. As an alternative to this expropriation of subjectivity, the author proposes a three-level positive program of algorithmic resistance based on the practices of deliberate “de-immunization”, counter-functioning, and the preservation of “cognitive anomaly”.
The findings identify a shared grammar of subalternization: sanitary and zoological metaphors authorize symbolic expulsion, pathologizing predications discipline women in public life, and territorial generalizations transform historical inequality into presumed civic incapacity.
Paulo Alexandre Lourenço Jesus, Ana Clara Augusto Jesus, Ana Cláudia Araújo da Silva et al.· Revista de Estudos Interdisc...· 0 citations
It is concluded that voluntary servitude should be understood as an analytical category for explaining subjective acceptance of digital exploitation structures and its implications require digital communication studies to strengthen critical digital literacy, protect digital workers, improve transparency in algorithmic governance, and democratize platform infrastructure.
Grace Heidy Jane Amanda Wattimena, Andre Ikhsano, Frengki Napitupulu· SIGn Journal of Social Scien...· 0 citations
This study aims to dissect the epistemological roots of political stagnation in Afghanistan by examining the dialectical tension between “modern posited rationality” and “premodern traditional legitimacy” during the period from 2001 to 2021. The central research question is based on the proposition of how the “regime of truth of tradition” was able to assimilate and transform the modern signifiers of modernization within civil and legal institutions, thereby generating “discursive entropy” in the state-building project. The research employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), drawing upon Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model and Michel Foucault’s genealogical approach. The findings indicate that political modernization in post-2001 Afghanistan was reduced to a formalistic and artificially sustained process due to the incongruity between the “text of modern law” and the “traditional habitus of social agents.” The analysis demonstrates that civil and educational institutions, such as universities and the judiciary, rather than functioning as centers of transition toward Weberian rationality and a Habermasian public sphere, became arenas for the reproduction of ethnic solidarities and rigid jurisprudential interpretations. This functional transformation caused democratic concepts to be absorbed into the black hole of “neopatrimonialism,” resulting in a profound crisis of political legitimacy. Ultimately, the article concludes that the collapse of the Afghan political order in 2021 was the outcome of the dominance of “rigid traditional legitimacy” over “corrupt posited rationality,” a failure that reflects the inevitable consequence of imposed modernization undertaken without the reconstruction of the cultural and identity-based foundations of Afghan society.
Abaidollah Hekmat Burhan, M. Maghsoudi, Katayon Sarlak· Journal of Historical Resear...· 0 citations
The ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) regime has consolidated as the principal normative architecture of corporate activity in Europe. Academic critique of the phenomenon has been predominantly technical—divergence among rating agencies, agency problems, and empirical ineffectiveness—ethical critique remains pending. This article advances such a critique from the convergence of three traditions: the libertarian ethics of natural law in its Rothbardian formulation; Hayekian spontaneous order theory and its economic correlate in the Austrian theories of dynamic efficiency and synergasia (Ravier); and Catholic Social Doctrine, from Rerum Novarum to Caritas in Veritate. The principal conceptual contribution consists in coining the analytical category of soft collectivism to name how the ESG regime operates: it subjects the firm through conditioning rather than command, hollowing out the content of rights without altering their juridical form. The mechanics of this subjection operate through soft law, institutional isomorphism, the spiral of silence, and the bootleggers-and-baptists coalition within a state culture that Bagus's counterfactual criterion identifies as indirect coercion. The convergence between Catholic subsidiarity and Hayekian spontaneous order—two formulations of the same formal structure—yields a unanimous verdict against the ESG regime. Against the bureaucratic simulacrum of social responsibility, the article posits genuine entrepreneurial responsibility—voluntary, prudential, subsidiary, and oriented to real service—as the only coherent alternative within the converging ethical demands established by the analysis.
The article analyzes the image of Queen Elizabeth II in global cultural memory and examines the phenomenon of her suprapolitical meta-authority. The aim of the study is to identify the mechanisms through which the symbolic legitimacy of the monarchy was formed under conditions of a mediatized society and historical turbulence. It is demonstrated that the Queen’s long reign shaped a unique type of symbolic power grounded in repetition, ritual, and the moral authority of service. The paper substantiates the thesis of the symbolic conclusion of the “long twentieth century” and the transition to an era of accelerated historical time. Particular attention is devoted to the role of television and digital media in constructing the phenomenon of the “televisual monarchy.” The study concludes that Elizabeth II’s mode of rule serves as an indicator of emerging models of symbolic leadership in the twenty-first century and as their benchmark. Methodologically, the research relies on an interdisciplinary approach combining historical analysis, political anthropology, media studies, and cultural memory studies.
Yevhen Nikolskiy, Anna Lill-Bezak· Baltic Journal of Legal and...· 0 citations
The article examines the transformation of the phenomenon of death in the first quarter of the 21st century, marked by a shift from the "spectacular" to the "digital" phase. In the latter, biological death ceases to be perceived as an ontological boundary and is reconceptualised as a crisis of the material substrate – one that can be overcome by means of NBIC convergence. The aim of this study is to explicate the technological, social, and existential implications of this shift. Methodologically, the research is based on an interdisciplinary synthesis of the philosophy of technology, cultural anthropology, and narrative analysis of science fiction works that model extreme scenarios of digital afterlife. The results demonstrate that the capitalist framework commodifies memory and personhood, generating a new form of stratification in which the rights to digital continuation of existence become a commodity with differentiated access. At the same time, the fundamental challenge of immortality is ignored: infinity without a transcendent purpose leads to existential entropy (boredom, semantic satiation). In contrast to individualistic models, the collectivist tradition of Russian cosmism is considered, proposing conciliar unity (sobornost’) as a way to overcome metaphysical isolation. The critique highlights the risk of the individual’s dissolution into a faceless megastructure that utilises existential experience as a computational resource. It is concluded that the era of "digital death" requires not merely technological innovations but a new metaphysics capable of substantiating the purpose of infinite existence.