DI PIERO SANSÒ
ABSTRACT – The widespread deployment of predictive algorithmic systems has profoundly reconfigured contemporary forms of governance, reshaping the production of knowledge, the organization of conduct, and the material conditions of political agency. Within this framework, algorithmic rationality marks a decisive shift from the statistical logic of modern biopolitical governance toward forms of environmental modulation based on individual profiling, behavioural anticipation, and technical opacity. These systems do not operate as neutral instruments but are embedded within the extractive logics of neoliberal digital capitalism, contributing to the naturalization of power arrangements grounded in data commodification and automated decision-making. Starting from a critical reading of Sandro Luce’s work, the contribution develops a genealogical account of algorithmic governmentality, examining the entanglement of computational power, transformations of the state, and the depoliticization of democratic conflict.
KEYWORDS – Artificial intelligence – Digital capitalism – Algorithmic Governmentality – Neoliberism – Democracy