Situated Epistemic Infrastructures: A Diagnostic Framework for Post-Coherence Knowledge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04995v1
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:08:23 GMT
• Title: Situated Epistemic Infrastructures: A Diagnostic Framework for Post-Coherence Knowledge
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces the Situated Epistemic Infrastructures framework as a diagnostic tool for analyzing how knowledge becomes authoritative under post-coherence conditions.<n>The paper contributes to debates on AI governance, knowledge production, and the ethical design of information systems by offering a robust alternative to representationalist models of scholarly communication.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have rendered visible the fragility of contemporary knowledge infrastructures by simulating coherence while bypassing traditional modes of citation, authority, and validation. This paper introduces the Situated Epistemic Infrastructures (SEI) framework as a diagnostic tool for analyzing how knowledge becomes authoritative across hybrid human-machine systems under post-coherence conditions. Rather than relying on stable scholarly domains or bounded communities of practice, SEI traces how credibility is mediated across institutional, computational, and temporal arrangements. Integrating insights from infrastructure studies, platform theory, and epistemology, the framework foregrounds coordination over classification, emphasizing the need for anticipatory and adaptive models of epistemic stewardship. The paper contributes to debates on AI governance, knowledge production, and the ethical design of information systems by offering a robust alternative to representationalist models of scholarly communication.

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