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Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality

Future Histories International

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The Differences Between Algorithmic Governmentality and Cybernetics

I always thought that cybernetics actually does not really care about ontology in this sense, but is absolutely fine with something that would be called a probable truth. So I was wondering if you think that algorithmic governmentality is in this respect different from cybernetics or why you say that they are trying to kind of get to the real. Well, if it was merely a misunderstanding, you think that we could continue to other questions. No, indeed, it's not about that. The speculative ambitions of machine learning, I think, are really at odds with the mid-19th century aspirations of studying social physics. In fact, with the advent of big data and machine learning,

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