DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

This book confronts one of the potentially most defining struggles of the coming decades: the battle for sovereignty in an age when data and computation have risen above the law and impact human agency on unprecedented levels. As algorithmic systems increasingly influence public discourse, automate but also manipulate political decision-making, and shape the conduct of war, the foundations of democracy are being rewritten in code. It brings together leading voices in art, philosophy, and technology, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe, to examine how personal and national self-determination can survive the dual forces of surveillance capitalism and authoritarianism in the age of artificial intelligence.

Onomatopee, 2026. Paperback, 256 pages 3 x 21 cm.