What makes us “see”? A techno-philosophical reflection on the limits of visibility based on Kant, Foucault and Pariser

Abstract

This article aims at a reflection that interconnects the fields of philosophy and technology with the purpose of analyzing, based on the thoughts of Kant, Foucault and Pariser, the formation of the limits of our field of visibility and the possibilities of overcoming it. To this end, will be present Pariser's analysis of the filter bubble, formed by algorithmic filtering mechanisms and distributed based on information personalization criteria on the network. Next, Foucault's analysis of the archive and the mutation from the classical to the modern episteme is presented. Finally, the article presents Kant's transcendental problematic regarding the formation of objective knowledge and the illusions of reason. Thus, by working on the concepts of bubble, archive and transcendental, we trace the guiding thread for a techno-philosophical reflection on what determines our field of visibility and what, by forming it, necessarily surpasses it.

Keywords: Kant; Foucault; Pariser; filter bubble; transcendental.