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Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality

Future Histories International

CHAPTER

The Critique of Algorithmic Governmentality

In one of your texts you argue for a return to reality. I would be interested, actually, what you mean by reality in this case? So what is it coming from this critique that you try to bring forward? You yourself state that the people who are working with these technologies are very much aware that there are so many hands reaching into the algorithm. There's already this aspect of entanglement and human co-production always in place already in capitalist cybernetics as well. In fact, what I speak about is a kind of pretension, a pretension that even the designers of the technology, data scientists and so on, they are not naive realists.

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