التعليمية

The Rule Of Algorithms And The Eclipse Of The Critical Reader

Auteurs : عيشة رقاقبة .

Résumé

Contemporary critical inquiry is no longer centered on the content of texts; rather, it focuses on the role that algorithms play in shaping the conditions of their visibility and reception. Within the digital environment, the algorithm has become a pre-interpretive structure that reorganizes perception and directs the horizon of reading according to a logic of probability, thereby redefining the relationship between the reader and knowledge. In this context, the concept of the critical reader has gradually receded, as the distance required for reflection and critique is replaced by the logic of immediate interaction. Such interaction is transformed into data that feeds the algorithm, enabling it to reproduce the very patterns of reading it promotes. Accordingly, the decline of the critical reader should not be understood as a matter of cognitive deficiency, but rather as the result of a redistribution of power within the digital sphere, where the algorithm has become an active partner in the production of meaning and the reconfiguration of choice. The article therefore calls for a shift in critical inquiry—from analyzing textual content to interrogating the interactive and algorithmic structures that determine the possibilities of reading and interpretation in the digital age.

Mots clés

Algorithms . Critical Reader . Interactive Environment.Meaning Production