Ignas Kalpokas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4165096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ignas Kalpokas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ignas |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalpokas |
| SIGNATURE | KALPOKAS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vytautas Magnus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1110-5185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ways That We Are Wrong
This paper is a theoretical contribution to an ongoing debate regarding the current predicament of truth and knowledge in the era of digital information overflow. It suggests that instead of an â era of post-truthâ in a literal sense, we should talk about a specific period of human informational vulnerability. The paper proposes a scheme for analysing human cognitive patterns that emerge when facing the confusing and murky reality of information …
I VR therefore I am
While the metaverse is typically billed as representing a radical break with the past and an invention of a new reality in a virtual form it merely reproduces historical patterns of anthropocentric dominance, exploitation, and violence. The Western intellectual tradition has long billed the human (or a privileged part of humanity) as the bearer of special rights, moral status, and epistemic capacities, which were seen as rendering the rest of the…
Blended dystopia
This study represents the first extensive analysis of popular support for conspiracy theories in Lithuania. Utilizing a representative national survey, it examines a wide range of potential correlates of conspiracism derived from the extracted general factor of conspiracy-related statements. The findings highlight a blended dystopian perspective, combining personal and public and present and past dimensions. Specifically, it encompasses dissatisf…
Technological Governance and Escapism in Times of Accelerated Change
Technology as a Threat or a Solution? The Challenges of Responding to Synthetic Media
Synthetic media – defined as text, audio, images, and video content or entire 2D or 3D environments generated by AI-enabled tools – are currently at the center of public attention. While benevolent applications of such technologies abound, the negatives attract significantly more debate. While some of such uses tap into existing fears of disinformation and related threats, others pertain to qualitatively new harms, such as non-consensual syntheti…
Technological Governance and Escapism in Times of Accelerated Change
Regulating the Metaverse
The metaverse seems to be on everybody’s lips – and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why it is important. This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by law and media and communications studies. Going beyond the optimism emanating from technology companies and venture capitalists, the authors critically evaluate the antecedents and the building blocks of the metaverse, the design and reg…
Creative encounters of a posthuman kind – anthropocentric law, artificial intelligence, and art
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction
From a Benjaminian point of view, AI-generated art is distinct from both ‘traditional’ art and technologically enabled reproduction, for example, photography and film. Instead of mere mechanical representation of the world as it is presented to a device, AI-generated art involves identification and inventive representation of data patterns. This specific mode of data-based generation exceeds mere surface-level mimicry and enables deeper meaning, …
Reliance on Conspiracy Theories Among Lithuanian Population
This article analyses the statistical validity of popular explanations for peoples‘s tendency to rely on conspiracy theories in Lithuanian public discourse. The paper discovers that out of four most popular explanations, belief in paranormal phenomena and determinist thinking have the strongest correlation. The evaluation of one‘s own perceived financial wellbeing also proves significance. Meanwhile, education, political knowledge and actual inco…
Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman
This book proposes a posthumanist research methodology for future research in the areas of the economy, the human self, politics, and research ethics, providing a novel explanatory and methodological framework for studying today’s world.
Towards an affective philosophy of the digital
This article employs Spinoza’s ideas as a springboard for developing a novel philosophical interpretation of today’s technologically enhanced world. As a starting point, today’s digitized and datafied world has brought about fundamental changes not only to the ways in which humans live their lives but also to our understanding of the role and place of the human person as such. As the conditions and, in many cases, the content of everyday life are…
Problematising reality
Contemplating a Cyber Weapons Convention
Despite being a crucially important domain for states, businesses, and individuals, cyberspace still suffers from a regulation deficit. This article takes up one such dangerously underregulated area: cyber warfare and regulation of cyber weapons. For that purpose, the authors first analyse the threats posed by weaponised malicious code, including some examples of its use and potential considerations that could sway states towards engaging in a mu…
Creating Students’ Algorithmic Selves
This article presents and analyses the results of focus group studies conducted with students at an international university in Lithuania, interpreting the results in light of the extant literature on social media’s impact on the creation and performance of the self. The authors reveal a mixed picture whereby the respondents seem to demonstrate an unexpectedly casual and cynical attitude towards social media while, upon closer inspection, still r…
Algorithmic Governance
This book analyses the changes to the regulation of everyday life that have taken place as a result of datafication, the ever-growing analytical, predictive, and structuring role of algorithms, and the prominence of the platform economy. This new form of regulation – algorithmic governance – ranges from nudging individuals towards predefined outcomes to outright structuration of behaviour through digital architecture. The author reveals the stren…
Affective Encounters of the Algorithmic Kind
This article goes beyond the current discourse on post-truth, fake news, and related developments by tracing the emergence of a broader and more fundamental change-a posthuman turn in politics. The article begins with examining the background of post-truth and the causes of its prominence. Those causes are found to primarily lie in the natural human predilection for pleasure and satisfaction as well as capacity for affective agglomeration. Such a…
On guilt and post-truth escapism
This article provides a framework for understanding post-truth politics by employing the ideas of Nietzsche and Schmitt. It posits pre-moral and pre-economic guilt and debt, relating human non-self-sufficiency, at the heart of social and political existence and alleges that guilt and debt are the hey bonds that hold human groupings together. Following Schmitt, romantic attitudes to politics are seen as negating this underlying reality, opting ins…
The new nomos of the earth and the channelling of violence
This article develops a theoretical explanation of the patterns of violence and distribution of conflict in contemporary world. It combines the international political thought of Carl Schmitt with an exploration of the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and tensions over the South China Sea in order to envisage a new spatialisation of the world (‘nomos’ in Schmittian parlance) based around Großräume – ‘large spaces’, that is, powerful agglomerations …
Ilgalaikio Kultūrinio Pasipriešinimo Problemos
Nors nuo pat 1994-ųjų zapatizmo judėjimui publikacijose tiek ispanų, tiek anglų kalba skirta daug dėmesio, reali raida parodė, kad daugeliu atvejų tyrinėtojų prognozės buvo pernelyg optimistinės. Nepaisant pradinio populiarumo bei inovatymumo, po 2006-ųjų pastebimas akivaizdus aktyvumo sumažėjimas ir paramos judėjimui nykimas, kartu – galimybės pasiekti realių pokyčių mažėjimas. Šiame straipsnyje norima, analizuojant zapatistų silpnėjimo priežast…
Wielding the spiritual sword again
This article traces the paradoxes within the modern international system, which is guided by liberal norms and values, in particular pertaining to human rights. This system is seen here as being ruled by an empty norm: power is present, but it is disembodied. Therefore, the entire international order is open to uses and abuses by the most powerful actors in the international sphere, especially the power states. Furthermore, when combined with the…
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction
From a Benjaminian point of view, AI-generated art is distinct from both ‘traditional’ art and technologically enabled reproduction, for example, photography and film. Instead of mere mechanical representation of the world as it is presented to a device, AI-generated art involves identification and inventive representation of data patterns. This specific mode of data-based generation exceeds mere surface-level mimicry and enables deeper meaning, …
Creative encounters of a posthuman kind – anthropocentric law, artificial intelligence, and art
On guilt and post-truth escapism
This article provides a framework for understanding post-truth politics by employing the ideas of Nietzsche and Schmitt. It posits pre-moral and pre-economic guilt and debt, relating human non-self-sufficiency, at the heart of social and political existence and alleges that guilt and debt are the hey bonds that hold human groupings together. Following Schmitt, romantic attitudes to politics are seen as negating this underlying reality, opting ins…
Towards an affective philosophy of the digital
This article employs Spinoza’s ideas as a springboard for developing a novel philosophical interpretation of today’s technologically enhanced world. As a starting point, today’s digitized and datafied world has brought about fundamental changes not only to the ways in which humans live their lives but also to our understanding of the role and place of the human person as such. As the conditions and, in many cases, the content of everyday life are…
Wielding the spiritual sword again
This article traces the paradoxes within the modern international system, which is guided by liberal norms and values, in particular pertaining to human rights. This system is seen here as being ruled by an empty norm: power is present, but it is disembodied. Therefore, the entire international order is open to uses and abuses by the most powerful actors in the international sphere, especially the power states. Furthermore, when combined with the…
Ilgalaikio Kultūrinio Pasipriešinimo Problemos
Nors nuo pat 1994-ųjų zapatizmo judėjimui publikacijose tiek ispanų, tiek anglų kalba skirta daug dėmesio, reali raida parodė, kad daugeliu atvejų tyrinėtojų prognozės buvo pernelyg optimistinės. Nepaisant pradinio populiarumo bei inovatymumo, po 2006-ųjų pastebimas akivaizdus aktyvumo sumažėjimas ir paramos judėjimui nykimas, kartu – galimybės pasiekti realių pokyčių mažėjimas. Šiame straipsnyje norima, analizuojant zapatistų silpnėjimo priežast…
The new nomos of the earth and the channelling of violence
This article develops a theoretical explanation of the patterns of violence and distribution of conflict in contemporary world. It combines the international political thought of Carl Schmitt with an exploration of the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria and tensions over the South China Sea in order to envisage a new spatialisation of the world (‘nomos’ in Schmittian parlance) based around Großräume – ‘large spaces’, that is, powerful agglomerations …
On guilt and post-truth escapism
This article provides a framework for understanding post-truth politics by employing the ideas of Nietzsche and Schmitt. It posits pre-moral and pre-economic guilt and debt, relating human non-self-sufficiency, at the heart of social and political existence and alleges that guilt and debt are the hey bonds that hold human groupings together. Following Schmitt, romantic attitudes to politics are seen as negating this underlying reality, opting ins…
Algorithmic Governance
This book analyses the changes to the regulation of everyday life that have taken place as a result of datafication, the ever-growing analytical, predictive, and structuring role of algorithms, and the prominence of the platform economy. This new form of regulation – algorithmic governance – ranges from nudging individuals towards predefined outcomes to outright structuration of behaviour through digital architecture. The author reveals the stren…
Affective Encounters of the Algorithmic Kind
This article goes beyond the current discourse on post-truth, fake news, and related developments by tracing the emergence of a broader and more fundamental change-a posthuman turn in politics. The article begins with examining the background of post-truth and the causes of its prominence. Those causes are found to primarily lie in the natural human predilection for pleasure and satisfaction as well as capacity for affective agglomeration. Such a…
Problematising reality
Contemplating a Cyber Weapons Convention
Despite being a crucially important domain for states, businesses, and individuals, cyberspace still suffers from a regulation deficit. This article takes up one such dangerously underregulated area: cyber warfare and regulation of cyber weapons. For that purpose, the authors first analyse the threats posed by weaponised malicious code, including some examples of its use and potential considerations that could sway states towards engaging in a mu…
Creating Students’ Algorithmic Selves
This article presents and analyses the results of focus group studies conducted with students at an international university in Lithuania, interpreting the results in light of the extant literature on social media’s impact on the creation and performance of the self. The authors reveal a mixed picture whereby the respondents seem to demonstrate an unexpectedly casual and cynical attitude towards social media while, upon closer inspection, still r…
Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman
This book proposes a posthumanist research methodology for future research in the areas of the economy, the human self, politics, and research ethics, providing a novel explanatory and methodological framework for studying today’s world.
Towards an affective philosophy of the digital
This article employs Spinoza’s ideas as a springboard for developing a novel philosophical interpretation of today’s technologically enhanced world. As a starting point, today’s digitized and datafied world has brought about fundamental changes not only to the ways in which humans live their lives but also to our understanding of the role and place of the human person as such. As the conditions and, in many cases, the content of everyday life are…
Reliance on Conspiracy Theories Among Lithuanian Population
This article analyses the statistical validity of popular explanations for peoples‘s tendency to rely on conspiracy theories in Lithuanian public discourse. The paper discovers that out of four most popular explanations, belief in paranormal phenomena and determinist thinking have the strongest correlation. The evaluation of one‘s own perceived financial wellbeing also proves significance. Meanwhile, education, political knowledge and actual inco…
Regulating the Metaverse
The metaverse seems to be on everybody’s lips – and yet, very few people can actually explain what it means or why it is important. This book aims to fill the gap from an interdisciplinary perspective informed by law and media and communications studies. Going beyond the optimism emanating from technology companies and venture capitalists, the authors critically evaluate the antecedents and the building blocks of the metaverse, the design and reg…
Creative encounters of a posthuman kind – anthropocentric law, artificial intelligence, and art
Work of art in the Age of Its AI Reproduction
From a Benjaminian point of view, AI-generated art is distinct from both ‘traditional’ art and technologically enabled reproduction, for example, photography and film. Instead of mere mechanical representation of the world as it is presented to a device, AI-generated art involves identification and inventive representation of data patterns. This specific mode of data-based generation exceeds mere surface-level mimicry and enables deeper meaning, …
Technological Governance and Escapism in Times of Accelerated Change
Technology as a Threat or a Solution? The Challenges of Responding to Synthetic Media
Synthetic media – defined as text, audio, images, and video content or entire 2D or 3D environments generated by AI-enabled tools – are currently at the center of public attention. While benevolent applications of such technologies abound, the negatives attract significantly more debate. While some of such uses tap into existing fears of disinformation and related threats, others pertain to qualitatively new harms, such as non-consensual syntheti…
Technological Governance and Escapism in Times of Accelerated Change
I VR therefore I am
While the metaverse is typically billed as representing a radical break with the past and an invention of a new reality in a virtual form it merely reproduces historical patterns of anthropocentric dominance, exploitation, and violence. The Western intellectual tradition has long billed the human (or a privileged part of humanity) as the bearer of special rights, moral status, and epistemic capacities, which were seen as rendering the rest of the…
Blended dystopia
This study represents the first extensive analysis of popular support for conspiracy theories in Lithuania. Utilizing a representative national survey, it examines a wide range of potential correlates of conspiracism derived from the extracted general factor of conspiracy-related statements. The findings highlight a blended dystopian perspective, combining personal and public and present and past dimensions. Specifically, it encompasses dissatisf…
Ways That We Are Wrong
This paper is a theoretical contribution to an ongoing debate regarding the current predicament of truth and knowledge in the era of digital information overflow. It suggests that instead of an â era of post-truthâ in a literal sense, we should talk about a specific period of human informational vulnerability. The paper proposes a scheme for analysing human cognitive patterns that emerge when facing the confusing and murky reality of information …
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