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Åke Elden

NLA university College

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Aug 2026

Comparative Desire and Social Violence: Mimetic Structure, Inequity, and the Scapegoat Dynamic

Social experiences of unfairness resist standard distributional accounts. This article argues that comparative relations do not merely shape responses to unequal outcomes but participate in constituting the sense of entitlement through which those outcomes are experienced as unfair. Drawing on René Girard’s social theo...

Åke Elden · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

When responsibility cannot arise: algorithmic mediation and the preconditions of moral imputability

This paper argues that moral responsibility can fail under technologically mediated conditions in two structurally connected ways. First, agents may act from motivational states significantly shaped by external formative processes whose influence remains partially opaque to reflective awareness. Second, institutions ma...

Åke Elden · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Creaturehood Under Conditions of Optimization: AI and the Externalization of Moral Formation

Contemporary AI systems are increasingly designed to reduce uncertainty, ambiguity, and cognitive burden. This article argues that such systems do not merely expand human capacities but progressively externalize forms of judgment and existential burden that Christian traditions have historically understood as necessary...

Åke Elden · 0 citations

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