State and sovereignty in the cyber age
In order to encourage academic production in the field of Sciences in the State, the Editorial Board of the Journal of State Sciences (REVICE) makes public this call, referring to the composition of the dossier of volume 9, number 1, year 2024. The theme of this edition's dossier will be "STATE AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CYBER AGE".
The advent of the digital age has led to far-reaching transformations in collective life, affecting patterns of sociability, work, production and behavior. In addition, digital technologies have influenced the power dynamics of collectivities in order to challenge their traditional dimensions and reveal new mechanisms of control and influence.
In times of crisis of democratic institutions, of uncriticality of thought, of deep hatred of politics, cybernetic technologies have played a profoundly disruptive role within collectivities. Surrounded by a growing surveillance capitalism, and its networks of psycho-political domination, the field of the Humanities is faced with the task of updating its reflexive repertoire from a transdisciplinary perspective. For researchers of law, economics, politics and the State, above all, it is essential to develop original interpretations that problematize technicality from its political contours.
At the interface between technology, the State and sovereignty, various techno or cyberpolitical dynamics operate that radicalize the tensions of democratic regimes. Certainly, this poses significant challenges to the organization of contemporary political communities, especially to the Rule of Law, whose historical commitment has been to affirm the freedom and dignity of citizens.
In this way, the dossier State and Sovereignty in the Cyber Age invites readers to inquire about the impacts of the cyber age on contemporary politics. In this context, we seek to encourage the construction of critical and reflective views that encompass the vast plexus of issues related to this proposal. In the cybernetic age, technocratic discourses emerge with seductive solutions, supposedly rational and efficient, to the impasses of our time and, in parallel, can gradually operate the alienation of civil liberties and the narrowing of the horizon of alternatives to technical domination. However, this overvaluation of technicality raises questions, such as the influence of technocracy on power structures and the relations between state and society in the digital reality; the ethical challenges arising from increasing technological subordination; in addition to the matters about the very nature of democracy and sovereignty, which focuses on the trust placed in the hands of technological experts or in artificial intelligence itself, as well as allowing the specter of manipulation and socio-political control to hover. Specifically, interest to investigate the interactions involving technology, State, sovereignty and the new rearrangements generated at the intersection of these themes in the Cyber Age.
Working, therefore, on the above-mentioned aspects, the necessary reflection is: in what way and what obstacles do they pose to the State and its sovereignty in the digital aspect? Will states be able to assert their sovereignty in the digital realm? If so, in what way? How to deal with the regulations of companies and private bodies when they are imposed on state autonomy?
What are the main ethical challenges related to technologies in governments? Is it possible to maintain state sovereignty in a technologically (turbo)globalized world? How are states adapting their laws and regulations to cope with rapid technological advancements such as artificial intelligence? How are States addressing growing concerns about privacy and data protection in a digitized context? To what extent can artificial intelligence and other technologies influence decision-making in government agencies?
At the same time, it is also possible to reflect on the dynamics of State and sovereignty in this new context. How could the implementation of technologies in the institutional environment help to overcome the challenges of democracy? How does the regulation of Artificial Intelligence affect the production of new technologies? How do cyber dynamics compromise national security? How can cybersecurity be effectively integrated into public safety strategies? What role do these technologies play in employing hybrid, omnidimensional, and cultural warfare? How have technologies influenced human behavior? What are the challenges inherent to technological advancement and what are the opportunities? Are we facing a double process of humanization of the machine and machinization of the human?
This number therefore encompasses works on: Artificial intelligence; Technocracy; Digital government; Technique and Politics; Philosophy of Technology; Turboglobalization; Resignification of borders; New Technologies; Digital swarm; Cybersecurity; Technological innovation; Ethical Challenges in the cyber age; Government control of algorithms; Digital society; Future Studies; Big data; Technological regulation; Digital citizenship; Sondocracy; Global interconnection; Social networks and the State; Internet of Things; Cyberlaw; Algorithmic Philosophy; Machinization of the human; Hyper-transparency; Algorithms and Government; Ethics in artificial intelligence; Citizen participation in the cyber age; Digitalization of life; Cloudcapitalism; Algorithmic government; New forms of cybernetic domination; Cyberscience; Cyberspace and sovereignty; Humanization of the machine; Digital sovereignty; Hybrid wars; Society of control and ignorance.
I - The publication of REVICE will take place in a continuous flow.
II – REVICE will receive papers for the present of the dossier from the date of its publication until April 18th, 2024.
III - Papers whose evaluation and correction process are not completed by June 30th, 2024 will be published in the following issues of REVICE.
IV - All of REVICE's submission policies, as well as its editorial policies, can be found on its official website.
V – Only articles, essays, reviews, unpublished translations and historical memoirs will be accepted.
VI – Papers with free themes continue to be accepted by REVICE.
Belo Horizonte, January 19th, 2024.
Lucas Antônio Nogueira Rodrigues
Editor-in-Chief of REVICE
João Pedro Braga de Carvalho
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of REVICE
