Preliminary Pieces

This page is the English companion to the German section Preliminary Pieces. It preserves the position of the paragraph within Chapter I and gives the English edition a stable address from the beginning.

Methodological opening before Chapter I. In the larger architecture, this paragraph helps build a sociology of algorithmic orders: not by treating AI as an autonomous subject, and not by reducing it to a neutral tool, but by asking how technical mediation becomes socially meaningful through practices, organizations, expectations, and binding consequences.

The German version remains the fuller working text at this stage. Future editorial rounds will expand this English page in parallel, carrying over the argument, citation layer, and internal references rather than producing a detached summary.