Political Sociology of Everyday Life
The Political Sociology of Everyday Life
This study examines how, in the digital space of late modernity, sovereignty is no longer the sole monopoly of the lawmaker; it has fallen into the hands of algorithmic infrastructures that infiltrate the most micro-pores of everyday life. In this new regime where the state of exception has become permanent, the subject's forms of resistance are addressed in a deconstructive context.
In Carl Schmitt's political theory, the "sovereign" is defined as he who decides on the exception[1]. However, in the digital space of late modernity, sovereignty is no longer solely the monopoly of the lawmaker; it resides in the algorithmic infrastructures that infiltrate the most micro-pores of everyday life.
Conceptual Note
Everyday life is a silent battlefield where power is not only exercised but also reproduced second by second, and where the engineering of consent is coded.
The Normalization of the State of Exception
The surveillance architecture collects the data of every user under a perpetual regime of a state of emergency. The absolute decision-making power that Schmitt attributed to the state now operates within the black boxes of predictive analytics models[2].
"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. The power to suspend the normal functioning of order is the center of true authority.
Carl Schmitt//Political Theology
Dr. Onur Aydemir
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Schmitt, C. (2005). Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press.
Lefebvre, H. (1991). Critique of Everyday Life. Verso Books.
Dr. Onur Aydemir (Ph.D.)
Verified AuthorPolitical Science Doctor, Culture Historian, and Holocaust Researcher. Doctoral candidate in Communication Sciences. Focusing on the political sociology of everyday life and the philosophy of the flâneur.