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Institute for Social Vision Design

Agnotology

30 items

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Cross-Axis Analysis of 22 Notes / Structural Patterns in Ignorance Production

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The Archaeology of Silence — Five Methods for Excavating What Was Never Debated

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A Methodology for International Comparison of Counter-Design — A Framework for Comparing Four Lineages that Implement Epistemic Justice

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Counter-Design Practices in Japan — A Structural Analysis of Domestic Attempts to Implement Epistemic Justice

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Information Literacy as Counter-Design: Curriculum Principles Centered on Epistemic Justice

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Japan's Structural Reproduction of Climate Skepticism (How Doubt Circulates)

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The Statistical Absence of Femicide (The Structure of Deaths That Cannot Be Counted)

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The Monthly Labour Statistics Scandal and the Reproduction of State Ignorance — When the Numbers 'Did Not Exist'

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Selective Description in Educational Curricula and the Filtering of Knowledge

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"I Have No Recollection" — The Institutionalization Mechanism of Political Memory Denial

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What Is Silence-Structuring? — The Architecture of Pluralistic Ignorance

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From 'Merchants of Doubt' to 'Captors of Regulation' — Reading Big AI's Regulatory Capture through 27 Mechanisms

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The Limits and Self-Referentiality of Agnotology — Is ISVD Itself Producing 'Invisibilities'?

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Literature Map of Agnotology in the Japanese-speaking World 2022–2026 — Tracing the Birth of a Discipline

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The Production Mechanism of Taboos — Who Decides What 'Must Not Be Said'

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Motivated Ignorance — The Cognitive Structure of 'Not Wanting to Know'

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The Reproduction of Authority and Ignorance — The Structure of 'No Need to Know'

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The Doubt Manufacturing Industry — The Sixty-Year War of Tobacco and Climate

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Why Predatory Business Endures — Structural Analysis of Converting Information Asymmetry into Profit

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Poverty and Epistemic Exclusion — The Structure of 'Being Unable Even to Know'

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Okinawa and Structural Ignorance — The Politics of Mainland Japan's 'Not Knowing'

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Why Unreported Issues Are Treated as 'Nonexistent' — Media Agenda-Setting and Invisibilization in Japan

Insights & Analysis

The Pitfalls of 'I Asked AI' — Authority Bias and the Hollowing Out of Knowledge

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'Kūki' and Sontaku — The Japanese Form of Pluralistic Ignorance

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The New Ignorance Produced by Algorithms — Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers

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Why Are the Voices of Persons with Disabilities Not Heard? — The Japanese Structure of Testimonial Injustice

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AI Amplification of the Brandolini Asymmetry — When the Cost of Producing Lies Approaches Zero

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Epistemic Injustice and Information Access Gaps in NPOs — Visualizing Structures Where Voices Go Unheard

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The Inhibitory Effect of Strategic Ignorance in EBPM — How 'Pretending Not to Know' Distorts Policy

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Research Framework of the Agnotology Lab — An Inductive Coding Framework