Carmelo Asaro

Meaning, Opacity, and Function: An Observer-Relative Classification of Artifacts

Every working epistemic system – a research group, a software stack, a model with its operators – holds artifacts it uses without understanding: models invoked through interfaces, cryptographic routines run as black boxes, legacy code executed daily. Whether an artifact is unders...

Meaning, Opacity, and Function: An Observer-Relative Classification of Artifacts

Every working epistemic system – a research group, a software stack, a model with its operators – holds artifacts it uses without understanding: models invoked through interfaces, cryptographic routines run as black boxes, legacy code executed daily. Whether an artifact is unders...