Inhuman Hermeneutics of the Self: Biopolitics in the Age of Big Data.

In this paper, I present a Foucauldian reflection on our datafied present. Following others, I characterize this present as a condition of "digital capitalism" and proceed to explore whether and how digital conditions present an important change of episteme and, accordingly, an importantly different...

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Published in:Foucault Studies no. 34; pp. 80 - 111
Main Author: GAMEZ, PATRICK
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Sep2023
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