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Социальное программирование как методологический инструмент сетевой самоорганизации: проблемы и тенденции (материалы «круглого стола»)
In December 2025, the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted an international roundtable on the topic “Social Programming as a Methodological Tool of Network Self-Organization: Problems and Trends”.
The roundtable was organized by the journal “Voprosy Filosofii” and representatives of the research project No. 25-28-00707, “Social Programming as a Problem of Network Self-Organization”, supported by the Russian Science Foundation. The discussion brought together epistemologists, specialists in the methodology of science, historians of philosophy, and sociologists. At the center of their attention was the question of the philosophical and methodological possibilities of social programming as a model for organizing networked society. Participants emphasized how images of the social future are being transformed in the context of network self-organization, and what advantages social programming offers for the reconfiguration of specific segments of social networks. Current trends prevailing in philosophical and methodological approaches to social programming and its role in network self-organization were examined alongside contemporary visions of a desirable social order – in connection with assessments of how such
visions influence the “architecture” and technologies of AI. Another topic of discussion was the question: “How do social programming and human creativity coexist?” The roundtable revealed the fundamental problematic nature, instability,
and ambiguity not only of the concept of social programming itself, but effectively of the entire conceptual framework of contemporary social-philosophical and social-theoretical thought. Within this framework, when constructing
theoretical concepts – society, communities, groups, and other forms of collectivity – what becomes particularly interesting is not these concepts themselves, but their specific, contextually significant applications: the models that emerge, among other things, through the process of social programming.