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Michel Foucault has amply shown how the hermeneutics of the modern subject leads him to an externalization of the devices of “technique of the self”, but what would he say today in the face of a knowledge of the subject by himself that passes through Facebook, Big Data and the digital, in short a subject in the age of selfies and artificial intelligence? Where are we today in terms of how to govern humans and how to train them to govern themselves? There is a real intersection between the ways of knowing oneself, of making oneself as an ethical subject, and the ways of governing. This is the reason why the way of knowing oneself through digital technology and algorithms corresponds to a political government of humans through digital prediction and management. Faced with the crisis of people’s confidence in democratic governments, states are taking refuge in technocratic management, an almost algorithmic administration of populations. Not without submitting to the demands of markets with which the technocratic government of humans can go hand in hand. With such a transition to post-democracy moving towards a post-political era, already present in new ways of healing souls, we would be facing a crisis of truth and subjectivity. And even more so in the presence of the emergence of a new system, a new political and subjective episteme, a new relationship between the subject and power.