From Knowledge to Power: The Tyranny of Governability

This essay examines the historical transition of knowledge from an emancipatory tool to an infrastructure of governability. It posits that in contemporary socio-technical systems, functionality has replaced truth as the primary systemic criterion, resulting in a new epistemic asymmetry. The work introduces and analyzes the concept of the 'Opaque Subject' as a theoretical framework for resistance. This framework describes a collective architecture designed to protect unpredictability against the totalizing logic of algorithmic management and data extraction. Note: Manuscript are also available in 14 languages via the linked Zenodo repository.