Current debates about AI and post-humanism tend to oscillate between dystopian anxieties and utopian projections, a polarization that obscures the deeper political and social stakes. My article argues that these extremes—technophobia and technophilia—fail to address the underlying institutional and imaginary frameworks that shape how societies understand and integrate AI. Drawing on Cornelius Castoriadis' theory of the social-historical imaginary, the article proposes a conceptual middle path of democratic technoskepticism that avoids exaggeration and instead foregrounds the socio-political conditions under which AI is produced, interpreted, and contested. The aim is to provide an ontological framework for digital humanism and the reclaiming of democratic control over AI and digital technologies in the horizon of social autonomy.
Alexandros Schismenos (Sat,) studied this question.