Grammatiche tecnologiche, giochi linguistici e forme di vita nella Digital Society

The article hypothesizes that technological languages orient relationships, perceptual fields, patterns of choice and behavior in individuals exposed to them, constructing technologically oriented forms of life. An algorithm, while being the product of the linguistic play of the engineers and mathematicians who made it, itself generates technological language games, that is, grammars and order systems for many communicative processes. Such performative capacity of technological grammars influences the way humans speak, think and act and their symbolic exchange. This way of interpreting human communication and interaction and the related flows of meaning presupposes that language and thought influence each other. The work sits theoretically between the phenomenological sociology of micro-relationships, how humans act in taken-for-granted reality, and the second Wittgenstein’s theory of language, particularly the ways in which meaning is attributed and social facts are interpreted. Indeed, language allows for the classification and typification of social experiences and contributes to the construction of the subject’s reality from primary socialization. At the same time, however, it can force the subject into narrow spaces of signification, a risk that is amplified by the technological grammars.