The Governance Logic of Digital Capitalism and Biopolitical Critique
The governance logic of digital capitalism reconstructs human social identities and social relations with the digital-human as the governance subject, and forms digital computational governance modes as well as spatio-temporal situational fields by means of digital technologies. This logic incorporates life activities into a computable, predictable, and controllable governance framework, giving rise to practical dilemmas of subject alienation and social disorder, which constitute the core proposition of biopolitical critique.
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