Possible becomings

Every life, as miserable and vulnerable it may be, is inseparable from the invention of forms-of-life. Forms-of-life are ambiguous objects. First, their mode of being is both the possible and the actual, the common and the singular. Second, the ambiguity of the forms-of-life is political. The possible in itself can be a potential for freedom, but it can also be instrumentalized by a new regime of power, which this article characterizes as an algorithmic and digital “dynato-power.” The #MeToo movement serves as a remarkable case of this ambiguity of the possible. The invention of “extimity” requires to extend the political history of truth which has been sketched by Foucault.