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Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality

Future Histories International

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Algorithmic Governmentality

Foucault's notion of governmentality or what he calls governmental rationality is a response to Castoria discourse. Governmentality allows me to try to diagnose or to produce a kind of clinics or analytics of a series of semi-apistemic normative strategic anthropological ethical shifts in the processes or techniques of signification that is production of meaning in techniques of power or domination and in techniques of the self. So I speak with others of inhuman biopolitics, the instrumental unit of power being not anymore the population, individuals or the bodies but only meaningless data. We therefore call algorithmic government or algorithmic governmentality a mode of government which is productive not of norms, neither of standards or rules which

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