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Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality

Future Histories International

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The Humanization of Interactions

The aim is not so much to manage or influence the individuals and groups, but to render power absolutely agile. All that matters is the convertibility of contingent data into speculative assets. Singular and collective experiences drastically fall in value and power operates on the mode of machining enslavement rather than social subjection. So enabling everything to be connected, to communicate or synchronize with everything as in almost real time. The computational term appears to disqualify all kinds of representations, including predictions based on statistical representations which never pretend to be adequate to the world,. But merely to provide approximative representation of it with an objective of neutrality.

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