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Fluxocracyn.
or : fluxcracy
Government by speed and by flow. Power no longer emanates from a centre; it circulates through data, networks, algorithms. Legitimacy is no longer institutional: it is attentional.
Fluxcracy, which I define in Cyberpunk — Le nouveau système totalitaire, describes this new regime of power, the dictatorship of flow, founded on the uninterrupted circulation of signs. Sovereignty is no longer exercised quite through law but through mastery of the flows of data, images, emotions. It is domination by speed. Everything dissolves in it before it can be understood, or thought. The tyranny of permanent noise dictates the tempo of power : to govern becomes to comment.
First public appearance — 28 February 2022, L’instant M — France Inter · Guerre en Ukraine : la bataille de l’information ↗
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