The novelties of contemporary societies are presented in loose pieces: "information society", "cyborgs bodies", "immaterial work", "genetic engineering", "cognitive capitalism", "posthuman sciences" ... Everything points to a fragmented way, to a crisis of humanism and a rise of information as a technique, culture and concept.
Pablo Rodríguez manages to gather these pieces to describe our era under the hypothesis of a great epistemic mutation that begins in the eighteenth century with statistics, goes through the decryption of messages in the Second War and ends up coagulating in the mid-twentieth century. Only he doesn't do it around European structuralism, where the Foucault of Words and Things intuited the end of humanism, but about cybernetic theory and American systems theory. The archeology of knowledge as diverse as sociology, genetics, psychology, immunology, anthropology or neurosciences, shows us a world where language has become detached from people and spread between machines and molecules. Words are in things. As beings that communicate, that organize and constitute systems, people, bodies, lymphocytes, brains or machines that coexist on the same ontological level: that of informational beings.
In this new world the new forms of capitalist accumulation are molded, the strategies of power go through algorithmic government and the optimization of life, and people fabricate their subjectivity as a mixture between data, machines, biomolecules and animated objects.