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Problems (7): PR-00001–PR-00007 — Meaning Crisis, Illegitimate Domination, Performance Society Exhaustion, Fascization, Epistemic Power Concentration, Platform Feudalism, Knowledge Isolation Models (5): Han, Fisher, Foucault, Vervaeke, Graeber/Anarchism Values (6): Epistemic Sovereignty, Authority Requires Justification, Exhaustion Is Structural, Mutual Aid Over Market, Digital Autonomy Is Political, Deep Reflection As Practice Arguments (3): Platform Feudalism → Democracy, PKM as Epistemic Strategy, Algorithmic Rationality Erodes Autonomy Organizations (5): IndieWeb, Wikimedia Deutschland, Reporter ohne Grenzen, Mehr Demokratie e.V., netzpolitik.org Plans (1): de-plan1-sven.md — Germany plan with 6 challenges, 5 strategies Data (1): DE-Democracy-Metrics — V-Dem, RSF, EIU, ARD-DeutschlandTREND, Bundeswahlleiter, More in Common Cross-linking: KNOWLEDGE-GRAPH.md + entities.json index Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Value: Epistemic Sovereignty
Statement: Knowledge is situated and power-laden. Every person and community has the right to produce, maintain, and trust their own knowledge — without dependence on algorithmic systems, platform intermediaries, or institutional gatekeepers that they do not control.
Problems Addressed: PR-00005 (Epistemic Power Concentration), PR-00007 (Knowledge Isolation)
In Practice:
- Maintaining a personal knowledge base that you own and control
- Questioning whose truth is being served when institutions or platforms claim objectivity
- Building and using open standards instead of proprietary systems
- Treating personal synthesis and reflection as legitimate epistemic acts, not just consumption of expert knowledge
Why it matters: Foucault's insight is that truth regimes are power regimes. Those who cannot produce their own knowledge — whose thinking happens on platforms owned by others, whose attention is managed by recommendation algorithms — live in someone else's epistemic space. Epistemic sovereignty is not solipsism; it is the precondition for genuine participation in shared knowledge.
The alternative — epistemic dependence — leaves individuals and communities unable to recognize, name, or resist the conditions of their own subordination.
Related Values: VA-00005 (Digital Autonomy Is Political — infrastructure as precondition for sovereignty)