A genealogia de Foucault num olhar lançado à hiperconectividade e seus modos de subjetivação e capitalização

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis aims to verify the possibility of relating Michel Foucault's genealogy to a critical analysis of the present the issue of hyperconnectivity, especially regarding the use of social networks, the collection and processing of data performed by the algorithms and the capitalization of themselves, as well as the impact of these mechanisms on the users' subjectivity. In this sense, at first, there is an exposition of the genealogical method presented by Foucault, especially in his works Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prision and the first volume of The History of Sexuality. Without the pretension of organizing a step-by-step method or exhausting the theme, it is intended to point out some prescriptions proposed by Foucault, that could guide the proposed analysis. Subsequently, it presents some important points about the disciplinary device, described by Foucault. In sequence, seeks to achieve an analysis, even if initial, of the current society, about the hyperconnectivity. I give a short presentation about the evolution of artificial intelligence, the technological advance that provided the increase of data storage and processing capacity by computers, as well as the establishment of psychometrics, as distinct elements whose relationships enabled the emergence and rise of both algorithms and online social networks. Subsequently, seeks to present, based on Foucault's notion of power, the functioning of online social networks and to relate the framework and examination techniques presented by Foucault as mechanisms of the disciplinary device, relate to the issue of data collection, processing and capitalization, which generate knowledge about the users while allowing the exercise of modular power over them. It can be concluded that Foucault's genealogy and his main concepts such as: relation of power-knowledge and device; they still have a lot to say about our lifestyle in the society .