{"id":3597,"date":"2025-02-20T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:55:19","slug":"government-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2025\/02\/20\/government-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Government efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernard Stiegler predicted DOGE at the end of the Obama era.<\/p>He was French philosopher and theorist of digital technology, and explored the logical conclusion of the concept of disruption.\u00a0He compared tech tycoons to Barbarians who work by outpacing the law. He passed away in 2020, and didn’t live to see how prescient he was:<\/p>\n

The goal is ultimately to radicalize the conservative revolution<\/em> \u2014 which was itself a radical critique of social-democratic reformism and the “Fordist-Keynesian compromise.” This occurs either by subordinating all material, formal, and final causes to the efficient cause that disruption would represent as self-sufficient<\/em>; that is: without any goal beyond efficiency itself.<\/em> The aim is to outpace law and its consequences through the immediacy of facts.<\/p>This dominance of fact-driven<\/em> action leads to the dilution of public authority: what the Barbarians are attacking is the legitimacy<\/em> of the public realm \u2014 specifically because it cannot be appropriated by private initiatives. This attack by the Barbarians represents a claim, if not for complete lawlessness, then at least for the futility of law<\/em>, against which disruption enables them to “undermine France” by multiplying loopholes<\/em> \u2014 and consequently<\/em>, chaos. It is in this way that accomplished nihilism realizes the “new form of barbarism<\/strong>.”<\/p>\u2013Bernard Stiegler, \u201cDans la disruption\u201d (2016)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“Without any goal beyond efficiency itself” (Elon Musk and Javier Milei, February 2025)<\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/p>\"Bernard<\/a><\/p>The rest is also quite amazing:<\/p>\n

It’s about staying outside the law by positioning oneself before it, making it always arrive too late, rather than becoming “outlaws” in the common sense. Disruption is nothing other than the ultra-liberal program called “libertarian,” as it claims to absorb the social and political into the technological and economic by pulverizing them: technology being computational, it allows for the algorithmic dissolution of the social, reduced to the calculable in an economy that has itself become purely, simply, and absolutely computational.
\nWhat results from this state of affairs is the dissolution of the rule of law itself: this is the true program of the new barbarians, and this is why they present themselves as barbarians<\/strong>. In the name of purely computational economics, disruption continuously extends areas of lawlessness, creating through the speed of “radical innovation” legal vacuums that indeed radicalize the outlawing of reality, and this through competition in speed.
\nThe new barbarians denounce the rule of law as unreal, a legal fiction they claim is illegitimate, an illusion and economic aberration invalidated by reputation technologies – which, as data economy, and by consolidating protections automatically extracted from everyone’s digital retentions, produce a purely computational “general will.” They thereby declare obsolete the “social contract” that the law formalizes.<\/p>-Bernard Stiegler, \u201cDans la disruption\u201d (2016)<\/p> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bernard Stiegler predicted DOGE at the end of the Obama era.He was French philosopher and theorist of digital technology, and explored the logical conclusion of the concept of disruption.\u00a0He compared tech tycoons to Barbarians who work by outpacing the law. He passed away in 2020, and didn’t live to see how prescient he was: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-resources","category-skepticality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}