#algorithmic habitus

In the expanding architectures of datalogical power, the self is no longer merely a passive object of surveillance or an externalised phenomenon of institutional capture. Rather, it becomes a self-generating artefact, a reflexive construction that emerges through the constant folding of information back into experience, affect, habit, and choice. The individual, once imagined as a discrete…

The subject that emerged from the discursive matrices of Western modernity—the product of Cartesian reflexivity, Christian confession, psychoanalytic unmasking, and neoliberal performativity—has now become largely obsolete in both its epistemological and operational valences. The paradigms which once stabilised the self through regimes of interiority, psychopolitical normativity, and…