Wise contingency: a planetary idiosyncrasy

Abstract

This paper presents a differentation between the post-structuralist concept of net and the own virtual maximization of digitalized media. This differentation transcends the notion of self which Foucault subordinates to governability of a supra-subjetive activity (subjectivation).

The alternative condition that stands out comes from the meaning of identity in as much as "relational invariant", concept which Kant anticipated and which constitutes the hyperformalized nucleus of digital network. Such hyper-formalization (virtualization of a system of relations) requires a priori the contingent activity which already supposed Foucauld's subjectivation. This integration between the formalized character of the network and the participation which requiered the individuals supposes an ethical criterion which admits both the contingency of the decision and the planetary condition of the activity.