Explanatory Publics: Explainability and Democratic Thought

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02108v1
• Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 20:25:13 GMT
• Title: Explanatory Publics: Explainability and Democratic Thought
• Authors: David M. Berry
• Abstract summary: I am gesturing to the need for frameworks of knowledge to be justified through a social right to explanation. For a polity to be considered democratic, it must ensure that its citizens are able to develop a capacity for explanatory thought. This is to extend the notion of a public sphere where citizens are able to question ideas, practices, and institutions in society more generally.
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• Abstract: In order to legitimate and defend democratic politics under conditions of computational capital, my aim is to contribute a notion of what I am calling explanatory publics. I will explore what is at stake when we question the social and political effects of the disruptive technologies, networks and values that are hidden within the "black boxes" of computational systems. By "explanatory publics", I am gesturing to the need for frameworks of knowledge - whether social, political, technical, economic, or cultural - to be justified through a social right to explanation. That is, for a polity to be considered democratic, it must ensure that its citizens are able to develop a capacity for explanatory thought (in addition to other capacities), and, thereby, able to question ideas, practices, and institutions in society. This is to extend the notion of a public sphere where citizens are able to question ideas, practices, and institutions in society more generally. But it also adds the corollary that citizens can demand explanatory accounts from institutions and, crucially, the digital technologies that they use.

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