Abstract

The topicality of the Foucauldian analysis was dramatically witnessed by the biopolitical trait of the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this event highlighted some important changes the current strong “digital accelerationµ is generating. Indeed, it showed how the extractive dynamics of today’s capitalism are increasingly centered on a logic of quantification – i.e., on the capability of turning anything into numbers – which is embraced as a project that redefines the meaning of governance in algorithmic terms. This essay aims to illustrate the changes this new rationality of algorithmic government is producing, both at the level of the production of knowledge and truth, and in the construction of subjectivities, which are increasingly less represented by the “totalityµ of their bodies, as subject of care and consideration, to be fragmented into an indistinct multiplicity of numerical flows.