Examining how artificial intelligence and cognitive automation reshape dispositions towards attention, learning, and public life, this book offers a critical framework to counter technocratic drift and to rethink agency and democratic responsibility in an increasingly automated world. Digital Infrastructures of Cognition Culture and Democracy rethinks the role of human intelligence and responsibility in environments increasingly guided by automated systems. It develops a critical understanding of how automated decision-making, data-driven platforms and algorithmic infrastructures, alongside neoliberal regimes of evaluation that discipline individual and institutional ethics through measurement, metrics and ranking, are transforming engagement with knowledge and the common good, redefining learning and notions of merit, reshaping social relations and democratic life. Drawing on case studies and debates on emerging forms of digital governance, this book offers new theoretical frameworks and socio-pedagogical strategies for reimagining digital ecosystems. It equips readers with conceptual tools to recognise subtle forms of algorithmic power, foster more reflective uses of digital technologies and explore the possibilities of algorithmic activism.

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