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Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality

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What Is a Constitution?

A constitution is a text by which the present people who are present and who sign the constitution limit their own power. They promise a little bit like, you know, need to charge nature with that task of producing an animal who can promise and keep its promise. A constitution does that, in fact, it forces those who sign to consider a lot of things which are irreducible to the mere optimization of the current situation or the state of facts. It allows for the political constitution, and also for the consideration of those who have not yet left any digital trace that can be enrolled in the calculation of the optimal.

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