DATAISM AS AN EPISTEMIC DISTORTION IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INFOSPHERE
DATAISM AS AN EPISTEMIC DISTORTION IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE INFOSPHERE

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes Dataism as an emerging metanarrative that profoundly influences the contemporary understanding of knowledge and the status of the epistemic subject. Based on Yuval Noah Harari's interpretations and Luciano Floridi's artifacts of information philosophy, this text shows that Dataism goes beyond the status of a simple technological paradigm and tends to shape a worldview in which reality is reduced to data flows that can be processed algorithmically. In this framework, human experience and deliberation are at risk of being subordinated to automated evaluation criteria. The analysis is deepened by the phenomenological contribution of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger, philosophers who insist on the role of corporeality, intentionality, and interpretation in the constitution of knowledge—dimensions that cannot be fully converted into digital structures. To understand how digital infrastructures shape the distribution of knowledge and social relations, the study also integrates Bruno Latour's actor-network theory perspective. The conclusion emphasizes that Dataism opens up both possibilities for cognitive expansion and significant risks to epistemic autonomy. A knowledge framework appropriate to the digital age must combine the capabilities of technology with interpretive practices that keep the plurality of meaning open.

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