1st Edition
Digital Infrastructures of Cognition, Culture, and Democracy Politics of Disengagement and Artificial Ignorance
Introduction: digital culture’s double bind: minds in the loop amid politicised noise and depoliticised critique 1 Between flesh and clouds: experience and cognition in the technomediatic environment 2 The microphysics of computational power: Critical consciousness and political judgement in the age of artificial ignorance 3 Beyond Atomising Pedagogies and the Machinery of Human Capital
Biography
Vania Baldi is Professor of Sociology and of Cultural and Communication Processes in both Italy and Portugal. His work explores the intersections between media environments, digital infrastructures, political communication, ethics and the social anthropology of technology. With a transdisciplinary approach, he examines how artificial intelligence, platform capitalism and data‑driven systems reshape mind, epistemology, public life, education and democratic culture. He has taught and conducted research across multiple institutions and international programmes, contributing to debates on critical media theory, algorithmic governance, epistemological transformations and the socio‑political implications of automated decision‑making.
