Law as social hermeneutics in algorithmic society: Navigating the withdrawal of meaning

This research project investigates the challenges that law as social hermeneutics faces in an algorithmic and increasingly non-hermeneutic society. The project proposes to analyze challenges of algorithmic regulation to law as a collective and critical hermeneutic practice. A key research question of this project is: As the technological medium of social ordering is changing, what happens to law as critical social hermeneutics? Law as critical social hermeneutics, which operates in the medium of meaning and natural language, has allowed both the creation and critique of social order. Can such critical collective reflexivity still be maintained in the era of algorithmic governance and if yes, how?