Algorithmic Government and Connections

New Aspects of Subjectivity from Michel Foucault

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the governance managed by the logic of algorithms. It is a logic of calculations and statistics used to conduct individual actions, mixed with the functions of machines, characterizing a new regime of production of subjectivities. Structuring the relationship between the human and the machine and gathering the maximum of information about the desires and needs of individuals, the algorithmic governance operates with the idea of a regulation inherent in the intermittent circulation of data itself, affecting personal and social experiences, through the systemic surveillance and the gradual control of the processes of the subjective manifestations.   Finally, however, reflections will be brought, from Michel Foucault, on the care of oneself and the knowledge of oneself, as possibilities for transformations of subjectivity and even resistance to eventual manipulations by these systems.