Panofsky explores how historical cultures shape the possibilities of seeing and artistic representation, while Foucault investigates the conditions under which knowledge and discourse become possible.
Techne names a form of knowledge that brings things into being, while modern technology increasingly transforms making into optimization, resource management, modeling, and algorithmic construction.
The conditions of knowledge shift from the constituting subject to historical discourse and episteme, and finally toward data, models, algorithms, and synthetic production in the age of artificial intelligence.
A philosophy essay on the two logics of certainty: ancient knowledge as object-appropriate episteme and modern certainty as foundation, criterion, and method.
