Journal article

Transparency and its leftover

Pages 76 to 83

Cite this article


  • Berns, T.
  • and Frémineur, S.
(2018). Transparency and Its Leftover. Multitudes, No 73(4), 76-83. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0076.

  • Berns, Thomas.
  • et al.
« Transparency and its leftover ». Multitudes, 2018/4 No 73, 2018. p.76-83. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2018-4-page-76?lang=en.

  • BERNS, Thomas
  • and FRÉMINEUR, Salomé,
2018. Transparency and its leftover. Multitudes, 2018/4 No 73, p.76-83. DOI : 10.3917/mult.073.0076. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2018-4-page-76?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.073.0076


English

Algorithmic governmentality responds to the imperative of transparency by correlating digital data in order to generate a perfectly adequate mirror-image of reality. This operation of re-presentation can be addressed as an issue of language and writing; but it also can questioned in its incapacity to allow for reiteration, correction, adjustment. The call for transparency rests on this myth of a totality closed upon itself, deprived of any leftover.

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