Organization in platform capitalism

In an age of algorithmic governance and pre- emptive action, the prevail ing schematic of polit ics is orches trated around data analyt ics of social media. Politicians grav itate toward Facebook and Twitter on the advice of their minders, assum ing the pulse of the masses can be aggreg ated and calibrated back into policy- making. Oversight of this cyber netic machine is also pursued by human it ies and social science researchers inves ted in digital methods that index the inputs of civil society in parti cip at ory mode. Against this mana gerial model of governance and know ledge produc tion, the ques tion of corres pond ence between data and the world of objects and things remains elusive as long as schemas of intelligib il ity command insti tu tional, epistemolo gical and polit ical hege mony.