Faced with algorithmic governmentality

Algorithmic governmentality is characterized primarily by the following dual movement: a) abandoning all forms of "tscale", "benchmark", or hierarchy, in favour of an immanent normativity evolving in real time, from which a "dual statistics" of the world emerges and which seems to do away with the old hierarchies devised by normal or average people; and b) avoiding all confrontation with individuals, whose opportunities for subjectification have become increasingly scarce. This dual movement seems to be the fruit of contemporary statistics' focus on relations. We seek to assess the extent to which these two aspects of the "algorithmic governmentality" thereby outlined, with its sole reliance on relations,…