The word "dividual" is a password to refer to the way we become effluvia of data, manufactures of obscure algorithms and figures of those social megamachines called platforms. Against the grain of the social, political, legal centrality that the individuum has had for centuries, Gerald Raunig then raises the flag of his archaeology: dividuum. Cicero's hesitation to translate Plato's Timaeus and the dilemmas of the Christian Trinity into Latin in medieval theology, Nietzsche's usual clairvoyance to destroy morality, and Marilyn Strathern's feminist anthropology, Guattari's schizoanalysis and Deleuze's societies of control, are summoned to explain "social" networks. financial derivatives and the logistics of machinic capitalism today.
It is not an exercise in erudition and eclecticism, but to understand to what extent the historical success of the idea of the individual hid the parallel plot that now explodes in our faces. And Raunig invites you to accompany his bet: a molecular revolution in the making where (fortunately) it is no longer just about humans. See a science fiction novel with a not-so-bad ending. He sees a detour to the machinic and voluntary servitude of the (post)pandemic. All that, when we stop being the individuals we are...
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