The advances of algorithmic reason, a major challenge for democracy. Politics in the digital age has to consider users as reflective subjects.
Algorithmic reason is governed by the promise of satisfying our preferences, once it is assumed capable of identifying them accurately, writes Daniel Daniel. Daniel Daniel: Algorithm governance is very depoliticizing and is indeterminacy of the future. The promise of algorithms is that if we let them sift through the data we have inadvertently generated, they can determine who we are, what we need, and what we want.