Negentropy, future and power: traces to think political transformation in the technocene

Abstract

In this article, starting from the philosophical framework developed by Bernard Stiegler – in coordination with other authors and traditions – we provide a set of keys that we consider essentials to account for the present and to glimpse into possible futures. We start from the entropy/negentropy dichotomy to recognize and project bifurcations in a system that tends to closure, enabling us to find and trace paths capable of escaping from mere becoming. On that basis, we discuss the apparent symmetry that seems to emerge from the Stieglerian periodization of proletarianization in favor of recognizing the radical novelty of digital expansion; we also address the implications of this novelty when it comes to thematizing power relations. On the other hand, we analyze the potentiality of the pharmacological and organological perspective around the digital in order to, finally, advance in the reflection on the possibilities of building futures – inherently negentropic –, from the point of view of the commitment to an algorithmic politics based on some new principles.