Algorithmic Teaching Management and Education in Times of Uncertainty

Abstract

This article intends to discuss educational memories in pandemic times based on the analysis of a recent phenomenon, namely, the growing algorithmic control of teaching and education. In a few words, the Covid-19 pandemic served and has served the purpose of producing an alignment between, on the one hand, the so-called attentional capitalism and its production and permanent accumulation of stimuli and data, and, on the other hand, the institutional space of educational practices, until recently thought of in terms of relative autonomy and self-centeredness. In order to defend this thesis, the article is divides into two moments: first, it points out the emergence of an uncomfortable figure for the field of education, the educational double or Doppelganger;after that, it discusses the increasingly solid link between algorithmic management and education. What is intended to demonstrate, in short, is that education constitutes a fertile field for the accumulation of data and the production of stimuli according to the demands of capitalism today, and that the Covid-19 pandemic has served to accelerate a process of acclimatization and field control already in course.