Table of Contents

Introduction: The Silent Consensus

1.1 Institutional Monopolies and the Construction of Artistic Reality

1.2 Epistemic Impasse and the Dual Spoor of Critique: Sociology and Jurisprudence

1.3 The Core Argument: From Epistemic Feudalism to Epistemic Democracy

Epistemic Injustice in the Art Field: The Anatomy of Testimony

2.1 The Analytical Framework of Miranda Fricker

2.2 Testimonial Injustice: The Deficit of Credibility in External Forensics

2.3 Hermeneutical Injustice: The Monopolization of Conceptual Tools

The Anatomy of Expert Fear and the Economy of Exclusion

3.1 The Sociology of Organizations and the Defense of Symbolic Capital

3.2 Asymmetry of Error: Type I vs. Type II Errors in Archive Committees

3.3 Weaponized Silence and the Enforcement of Artificial Scarcity

The Ecosystem of Silence: Complicity of the Market Infrastructure

4.1 The Economic Symbios of Private Archives and Financialized Art Markets

4.2 Cognitive Ambiguity vs.…