Antoinette Rouvroy


algorithmic governmentality - an art of not changing the world

a description of phenomena that escapes the senses
"immunisation from life" (against the future)
     against uncertainty as such 

desire for unmediated relationship to the world (non-representational)
     crises of representation
          because everything is present
attempts truth-regime (uncontestable), like the law also posits a factive truth
big data suppresses alterity

Foucault - avowal
     commitment

government without subject, a radical shift as data speaks for us
raw data pretends to be a second skin of the world
but is not raw but cooked

data seems to sugest that the world has spoken
things that begin to speak for themeselves and for us
that signs and symbols become the same is a symptom of a crisis of representation
     
removing the distance of real life to the norm
no selectivity is evident, even noise is incorporated in big data

objectivising the reproduction of the current state of affairs, making it impossible to contest
if this is the art of not changing the world - of closing the present as the spece of alteration - then what is the art of changing the world?
reenactment is a space for potential 


‘signature’ of a terrorist in a database

Agovernmentality that escapes the senses
Areplacement of categories with something that is invisible but arguablyimmanent with the world
Anew world of making the world prepared for action and speculation – a new spacefor speculation and action
Animmunesystem of the digital, an immunisation from life, abstraction of thedigital from the physical world
Rawdata as something that replaces the world
Anormativity (Canguilheim) that is not different from the world
Indistinctionbtw things and data – signs and things become the same
è crisis ofrepresentation – we cannot bear differance anymore – the world speaks foritself
è a new truthregime? In fact the opposite. Dispositifs som ikke tillader vidner, we are freenot to tell anything, no subjectivation
A government without subject – evolving in real time, noevent, no interruption. 
When signs and things become the same thing the space forcriticism disappears. Vs classical statistics, som kunne kritiseres. 
Der er ingen udvælgelse (ideelt), selv støjen tager med,dvs. den tager alt med, selvom det singulære. 
Ifbig data is the world, why criticise? Men stor forskel mellem big data ideologiog praksis. 
Bigdata ideology er en slags amnesi – glemmer materielle betingelser – 
Facts:Canguilheim: Facts appears to forget their conditions – 
Istedet for truth -> operationality – a truth that doesn’t depend on anyevent – the liquidation of any kind of event
Thesuppression of alteration – 
Putsus in a radical competition
Rawdata as oxymoron – raw data as the process of the rawification of data – 
Bigdata is only about the digital:
thingsthat are not digital: things that have not happened (e.g utopias),bodies/organic life, the fact we are not completely contained, sprogetindsætter forskel -> tvivl – 
Weneed a new law, politics and culture of the potential – reopen the space forimagination

Seda Gürses

There is no software, there are only services that are now linked to agile development
what we learn from histories - crisi of softwrae that led to the field of software engineering
what gives rise to big data? how different poetntia spaces develop? why we talk about the things we do, what can we do?
in other other words, how to bring down the cloud? 
suspicion is required

we need to tae decisions on uncertain futures
perhaps waht we require is a new social contract
Relationsbtw dababases and big data – 
agiledeveloping -> the disappearance of the subject-user -> becomes somebodythat is constantly in the development process, not somebody who speaks
Bringdown the cloud, if your project fills up the cloud, it is not the project – 
 

Discussion

rawification of data - decontextualising
language connects us to others but disconnects us form the self
     raw revises itself (autopoietic)
are there other potentialities here of acting with machines - inter-subjective relations or trans-individuation? 
imhoff

laporte's history of shit - a good reference to think about how language is cleansed in order to reinforce the power of the sovereign
and the management of waste and the implications for how we think about infrastructure

who is this us? 
AR: the legal subject who acts as pure immanance with rights to be forgotten and to disobey