Piattaforme, mediazione e rappresentazione: regimi di visibilità e di verità nei dispositivi digitali

Abstract

The aim of this contribution is understanding digital platforms, whose structure has now infected almost all the space of the web, as devices aimed at reproducing specific profit- and control-oriented capitalist operations. Such understanding implies the critical demystification of a widespread vision of internet that presents it as a transparent and immediate environment that grants a limitless vision and access to information. On the contrary, building on the intuitions of Foucault and Deleuze, the consideration of the platform as a dispositif allows to show the regimes of visibility and enunciation that it arranges, to reveal the epistemological basis and the specific regime of truth it imposes – as well as to convert transparency into opacity and immediacy into hyper-mediation.