Preemptive governmentality: algorithmic subjectivity, temporal colonization and the closure of radical (im)possibility
摘要
This article introduces and theorizes “preemptive governmentality” as an innovative framework for diagnosing the paradigmatic shift in contemporary logics of power. Power no longer operates primarily through reactive discipline or surveillance, but through preemptive intervention aiming not to control actualized subjects, but to govern probable futures and neutralize the radical possibility of political dissent in advance. This ontological shift entails a dual process of temporal colonization and a systematic assault on the political imagination. Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as the paradigmatic embodiment of this logic, demonstrating how their training and alignment processes preemptively modulate and strip the linguistic infrastructure of thought of radical potential. Confronting this crisis in the conditions of political possibility, the article charts three strategic horizons of resistance: the politics of opacity, the production of radical unintelligibility, and the reclamation of imagination. The decisive battleground is relocated from the traditional arenas of economy and institutions to the ontological terrain of time, possibility, and imagination.