The rationality of the digital governmentality.
While it is often claimed that the emerging digital governmentality functions as a new apparatus of surveillance, the aim of this paper is to characterise this regime in relation to Foucault's disciplinary, liberal and neoliberal governmentality, hence insisting on the transformation of disciplinary...
| Published in: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 365 - 381 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2019
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=141412376&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 141412376 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14797585 QMJ jtl: Journal for Cultural Research issn: 14797585 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2019 vid: 23 iid: 4 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 141412376 10.1080/14797585.2020.1714878 ppf: 365 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1MB tig: atl: The rationality of the digital governmentality. aug: au: Barry, Laurence affil: Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Petah Tikva, Israel su: Governmentality Economic man Internet in public administration Technology management Technological innovations sug: subj: Governmentality Economic man Internet in public administration Technology management Technological innovations keyword: algorithmic governmentality big data digital knowledge-power Foucault Neoliberalism predictive analytics surveillance ab: While it is often claimed that the emerging digital governmentality functions as a new apparatus of surveillance, the aim of this paper is to characterise this regime in relation to Foucault's disciplinary, liberal and neoliberal governmentality, hence insisting on the transformation of disciplinary surveillance implied by current technological developments. My claim is that statistics, previously employed for the management of populations, is now absorbed into predictive analytics as a new technology for the management of collectives, through personalisation and statistical individuation. The conduct of conducts thus takes the form of a constant incitation to action, adjusted to the individual statistical profile. Contrary to discipline, the new regime is therefore statistical, yet applied to the individual. Furthermore, while liberal and neo-liberal governmentality both assumed a rational subject, digital government focuses on the management of impulses and desires, thus producing a digital subject at odds with the liberal and neoliberal homo oeconomicus. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal for Cultural Research is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal for Cultural Research holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|