kedaulatan AI – Neopolitique

Why Digital Sovereignty Is Becoming More Important

September 24, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For decades, the globalization of technology operated on a frictionless premise: data, software, cloud infrastructure, and hardware components flowed freely across planetary networks, managed by transnational tech conglomerates under the assumption of a borderless digital commons. In the 21st-century network society, that era of techno-optimistic interdependence has ended. Digital sovereignty—the capacity of a state, society,…

Technology & Politics

The Future of Digital Democracy and Political Technology

September 16, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For centuries, the architecture of democracy was built around physical proximity, periodic elections, and slow-moving legislative assemblies where citizens delegated their voices to representatives across bounded territorial borders. In the 21st-century network society, that Westphalian model faces an existential crossroads. Digital democracy and political technology are no longer experimental civic tech add-ons; they are the…

Technology & Politics

The Politics of Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

September 9, 2025 • by MIchael Baker • 0 Comments

For centuries, industrial power and geopolitical dominance were anchored in the control of physical resources—coal fields, oil pipelines, shipping lanes, and heavy manufacturing belts. Territorial sovereignty was defined by borders and the extraction of material commodities. In the 21st-century network society, that Westphalian framework has completely shifted. Artificial Intelligence infrastructure is no longer a neutral…