Historia de las tecnologías epistemológicas

The chapter reconstructs, through a genealogical and decolonial lens, the evolution of "epistemological technologies"—that is, the devices, institutions, and regimes that produce and validate knowledge—from the medieval university to the informational turn, showing how each era establishes an architecture of power-knowledge that defines what counts as legitimate knowledge. From a decolonial perspective, it decenters the Eurocentric narrative by recovering non-Western genealogies (such as madrasas) and problematizes the transition from theological and scriptural authority to the authority of the modern method and, ultimately, to the authority of data and the algorithm. The trajectory is explicitly segmented—Medieval University, Renaissance, Mature Modernity, New Paradigm, and the Information Age—and functions as the narrative backbone for reading continuities and ruptures: from the archive and the manuscript to the disciplinary laboratory, and from there to the digital platform. Along this path, the printing press, imperial grammar, the laboratory, statistics, computing, and informational networks reconfigure the criteria of validity (exegesis, canon, method, peer review, metrics, algorithms), preparing the ground for the contemporary technoscientific paradigm, with its promises of optimization and its new asymmetries of access, control, and governance.