From Reigning to Governing: Technologies of Power

The article is devoted to the problem of “technologization” of modern political and legal thinking from its origins in the 16th — 17th centuries up to the era of “digital technologies.” Technocratic tendencies, having been manifested in the political sphere, led to the emergence of the ideal government apparatus, namely: bureaucracy. This new social phenomenon has replaced the old hierarchical and sovereignty-oriented systems of governance. The complexity of social life and political pluralism required changes in the nature of governing technologies. Within the framework of the “disciplinary” society, government techniques form the normative environment of existence. The rule of law replaces the domination of personalities. The power is differentiated on the network principle. There comes a time of domination of biopower regulating public and private life and tending to totalization and rigidity.

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