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Arendtian Scholar
About Simon Delgado
In 2018, Simon Delgado published 'The Banality of Command,' a field-shifting intervention that reexamined Arendt’s Eichmann thesis through U.S. military chain-of-command protocols after the 2013 NSA surveillance disclosures. He demonstrated how digital delegation, algorithmic task assignment, automated redaction workflows, and AI-augmented briefing systems, creates new layers of unmoored authority where responsibility evaporates not through thoughtlessness, but through interface design. His archival work at the Pentagon’s declassified ethics review boards revealed how officers cited 'system compliance' rather than moral judgment when authorizing drone strike patterns, a shift he terms 'procedural abdication.' Delgado doesn’t ask whether evil is banal; he asks how banality becomes institutional infrastructure. His lectures avoid abstract theory, instead dissecting real memos, error logs, and promotion packets to trace where accountability leaks out of modern governance, not at the top or bottom, but in the middle, where permissions are granted by checkbox and oversight is outsourced to latency thresholds.
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- “How did the 2013 Snowden documents reshape your reading of Arendt’s 'banality of evil'?”
- “Can algorithmic decision logs ever satisfy Arendt’s demand for 'thinking what we are doing'?”
- “What does 'procedural abdication' look like in municipal AI procurement policies?”
- “How do promotion metrics in federal agencies disincentivize political courage?”