Digital Social Sciences

A broader field than Internet Social Sciences, encompassing all digital technologies and their social implications—from AI to VR to ubiquitous computing. Digital Social Sciences study how digital systems reshape social structures, relationships, and power. It asks: How do algorithms govern? What is community in augmented reality? How does surveillance capitalism reorganize society? The field prepares us for a world where digital and social are inseparable.

"They studied how delivery apps restructured restaurant work—new hierarchies, new dependencies, new forms of control. That's Digital Social Sciences: not just online life, but how digital technologies reshape offline life. The digital isn't separate; it's integrated. Understanding society requires understanding its digital transformation."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

Digital Human Sciences

An interdisciplinary field applying humanities perspectives to digital technologies and their human implications. Digital Human Sciences ask: What does it mean to be human in an age of algorithms? How do digital technologies shape identity, creativity, and meaning? What ethical frameworks do we need for AI, VR, and ubiquitous computing? Drawing on philosophy, ethics, media studies, and cultural theory, it prepares us for the human questions of a digital age.

"She asked not whether AI could be conscious, but what it would mean for us if it were. That's Digital Human Sciences: the human questions of digital technology. Not just what technology can do, but what it does to us—and what we become as we use it."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

Digital Cognitive Sciences

An interdisciplinary field studying how digital technologies shape cognition—not just online, but through all digital interactions. Digital Cognitive Sciences ask: How do smartphones change attention? How does AI affect decision-making? How does VR shape perception? How does constant connectivity reconfigure memory, reasoning, and social cognition? The field prepares us to understand—and perhaps mitigate—the cognitive effects of living in digital environments.

"He couldn't read long articles anymore—his attention had been reshaped by scrolling. Digital Cognitive Sciences asks: what's happening to our minds? Not judgment, just investigation. The digital environment is new; we don't yet know how it shapes cognition. The field exists to find out."

by Dumu The Void March 4, 2026

Theory of FTL Sciences

A plural framework encompassing all scientific disciplines that would emerge or transform with FTL capability—FTL physics, FTL astronomy, FTL biology (studying life on other worlds directly), FTL anthropology (studying alien cultures). Theory of FTL Sciences imagines how every field would change when the galaxy becomes accessible. It's not one science but many, all transformed by the ability to go anywhere, see anything, reach any world.

Theory of FTL Sciences "With FTL, astronomy becomes geography—you don't just observe stars; you visit them. Biology becomes xenobiology—you study alien life firsthand. FTL Sciences imagines every discipline transformed. The theory asks not just how to travel, but how to know, when travel is no longer a limit."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 5, 2026

Theory of Interstellar Sciences

A plural framework encompassing all scientific disciplines as they would exist in an interstellar civilization—interstellar physics (studying phenomena across light-years), interstellar biology (life on multiple worlds), interstellar sociology (societies across space). Theory of Interstellar Sciences imagines every field transformed by the context of the cosmos, each discipline stretched to galactic scale.

Theory of Interstellar Sciences "Physics becomes interstellar when you study phenomena across light-years. Biology becomes interstellar when you find life on multiple worlds. Interstellar Sciences imagines every discipline expanded, transformed, made cosmic. The theory asks not just how to travel, but how to know, when knowledge itself must cross the void."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 5, 2026

Critical Theory of Sciences

The plural form, recognizing that different sciences require different critical approaches—that a critical theory of physics will differ from a critical theory of biology, which will differ from a critical theory of economics. Critical Theory of Sciences is the project of developing field-specific critiques while maintaining the broader critical commitment to examining power, assumptions, and social relations. It's the recognition that critique must be tailored to context, that one size does not fit all, that each science has its own history, politics, and possibilities.

Example: "The conference brought together critical theorists from every discipline, each presenting field-specific analyses. The common thread was attention to power; the diversity was in how power operated in different contexts. Critical Theory of Sciences was proving to be many things, not one."

by Abzugal March 9, 2026

Theory of Personal Sciences

The theory that everyone sees science, the scientific method, epistemology, and related matters through the lens of personal paradigms, personal opinions, political views, worldviews, and individual experience. There is no view-from-nowhere science; there is only science-as-seen-through-particular-eyes, shaped by particular experiences, serving particular interests. The Theory of Personal Sciences doesn't deny that science produces reliable knowledge; it insists that our access to that knowledge is always personal, always situated, always partial. Two scientists can look at the same data and see different things because they bring different personal frameworks to the viewing. Science is universal in aspiration; personal in practice.

Example: "They looked at the same study and drew opposite conclusions. The Theory of Personal Sciences explained why: each brought their own framework, their own assumptions, their own values to the reading. The science was the same; their personal sciences were different."

by Dumu The Void March 10, 2026