Meta-Abstract: Understanding Sovereignty — Structures of Understanding Stoppage and Forms of Non-Stoppage in the AI Era (v0.1)

Credit Author: Y. Seo (@momotarou / Japan)Role: Metanist — Human × AI Understanding ArchitectAI Collaboration: AI Understanding SupportORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7669-0612 Section ID US-UNDERSTANDING-SOVEREIGNTY-META-ABSTRACT-V0-1 Body The “Understanding Sovereignty” series is a conceptual record describinghow human understanding may come to a stop in the AI era,from both external and internal structural perspectives. First, using Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Luhmann as reference points,the series places minimal coordinates showing how understanding sovereigntyhas been externalized and absorbed into economic, social, institutional,and systemic structures. Second, it demonstrates that even after external delegation disappears,a sequence ofinternalization, self-fixation, and circularizationcan occur within the subject. Third, with Foucault and Arendt as illumination,the series shows that this internal fixation progressesnot through coercion or malice,but through autonomy, rationality, and a sense of security. This series does not propose methods or correct answers.Instead, it distinguishes betweenforms in which understanding stops (circle)and forms that avoid stoppage (spiral),positioning ongoing renewal itself as the sole conditionunder which understanding sovereignty remains alive. Understanding sovereignty is not a possession.It is the state of a movement that has not stopped. Protection Note This meta-abstract summarizes the positioning of the series as a whole.It does not aim to evaluate or criticize specific thinkers, theories, technologies, or social systems.The series is released as v0.1 as an observational record of understanding stoppage in the AI era,with continued revision and repositioning anticipated.