DATAISM AND BIOPOWER: DATA AT THE HEART OF DECISIONS

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36661/2358-0666.2022v9n2.13207

Keywords:

Fundamental Rights. Artificial Intelligence. Biopower. Biopolitics. Dataism

Abstract

This article is the result of the author's questions about the approximation or not of Michel Foucault's concepts of Biopower and Biopolitics with Dataism, expression used by David Brooks in 2013 and echoed by Yuval Noah Harari in his work Homo Deus, one of today's best sellers. The centrality of data in decision making and respect for human rights are addressed in the article, as well as the innovations brought with the use of new technologies, specifically artificial intelligence, and their possible use for the regulation of biopolitics. The transition from pre-industrial society, the renewal of Foucault's concepts of biopower in the post-war era, and the actuality of the concepts were objects of study in the article. The capillarity of biopower understood in the article as no longer exclusive to the State, where the interference of transnational companies and big techs have pulverized the forms of control, where data-driven decisions change the capitalist perception until then existing, challenges new concepts. What would be the risks with automated decision making, the possible loss of privacy resulting from data exposure, the controversial genetic and pharmacological solutions, which aim to conform individuals in order to maintain biopower strategies, with its imperative of health and its broad menu of preventive measures, are some of the topics discussed in the article.

Author Biographies

  • Bruno Meneses Lorenzetto, UniBrasil

    Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito (Direitos Fundamentais e Democracia) e Professor da Graduação do Centro Universitário Autônomo do Brasil - UniBrasil. Professor de Direito da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. Visiting Scholar na Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York (2013-2014). Doutor em Direito pela UFPR na área de Direitos Humanos e Democracia (2010-2014). Mestre em Direito pela UFPR na área do Direito das Relações Sociais (2008-2010). Graduado em Direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (2003-2007). Bolsista pela CAPES durante o Mestrado na UFPR. Membro do Comitê Executivo do DEMOS (Observatório para Monitoramento dos Riscos Eleitorais no Brasil) Email: ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3781-3278

  • Amilcar Cordeiro Teixeira Filho, UniBrasil

    Advogado na empresa Gomes & Teixeira Advogados Associados. Doutorando (2019). Mestre em Direitos Fundamentais e Democracia - UNIBRASIL (2016), Graduação em Direito pela Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (1995).  Membro do Núcleo de Pesquisas Jurisdição e Democracia (CNPq) no projeto Jurisdição constitucional e dimensões da legitimidade. Bolsista pela CAPES no programa de Doutorado em Direitos Fundamentais e Democracia UNIBRASIL. E-mail: amilcaradvocacia@gmail.com . ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8099-3951 

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Published

22-03-2023

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): Vol. 9, n. 2, 2022 - Dossier: Human Rights, Education and Technologies

Section

Artigos - Dossiê

How to Cite

LORENZETTO, Bruno Meneses; TEIXEIRA FILHO, Amilcar Cordeiro. DATAISM AND BIOPOWER: DATA AT THE HEART OF DECISIONS. Gavagai - Revista Interdisciplinar de Humanidades, Brasil, v. 9, n. 2, p. 90–112, 2023. DOI: 10.36661/2358-0666.2022v9n2.13207. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uffs.edu.br/index.php/GAVAGAI/article/view/13207. Acesso em: 10 apr. 2025.