States of Exception: The Algorithmic Sovereign

From the street to the stock market, algorithms are rewriting the rules of everyday life. Their rapid, largely unregulated intrusion into public services and personal spaces materialises new forms of social control at unprecedented scale. In this conversation, Max Haiven, Dr. Seeta Peña Gangadharan and Damien Roach explore how algorithmic systems enforce, speculate, and aestheticise power. Through the lens of security, finance, and art, they discuss how algorithmic sovereignty establishes new regimes of truth about what can be measured and known, and where possibilities for resistance might emerge.