The growing concentration of the economic and social value generated by digital data in the hands of large technology platforms raises fundamental questions regarding data governance, inequality, and digital justice. This article analyzes the concept of digital communism—inspired by the work of Maurizio Ferraris—as a possible model for redistributing the value produced through users’ digital activities. From this perspective, data are interpreted as social objects—informational resources generated by human interactions…

Some claim that AI agents will free workers from the boring parts of their jobs, yet little is known about how workers themselves identify which tasks should be automated. Prior research focuses on occupations, overlooking that workers may experience varying levels of meaning across tasks within the same role. We address this gap with a task-level analysis grounded in Graeber’s theory of bullshit jobs. Using ratings from 202 workers on…

In the last decades, a great number of philosophical theories have emphasized that a just society should move beyond the prevailing disregard for need and vulnerability that underlies the ideal of autonomy. This article examines some of these critiques, arguing that the way to overcome the anthropological contempt for need is to establish a Webfare: a digital welfare system that capitalizes on the value each human being generates – regardless…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents theoretical and practical challenges that require explanations addressing both the technical functioning of AI systems and the interpretive needs of diverse stakeholders. Although the philosophy of AI and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) provide valuable approaches to understanding AI, they often remain divided across computational, ethical, and user-oriented perspectives. This paper proposes hysteresis as a philosophical and hermeneutical framework for establishing a common language of AI explanation…

In “On the concept of documedial cooperativism,” Maurizio Ferraris and Pauldin Lawrence propose reconceptualizing data as a documedial social resource to address ontological limitations in traditional data cooperatives. This framework advances equitable data governance by treating data as a register of human interaction that empowers users as active co-owners of their digital capital. You can access the full manuscript and related discussions at Great Britain Journals Press.