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This paper analyzes « cognitive automation », i.e., the uniformization of the processes of perception, imagination and enunciation. The digital transformation of info-labor is a condition of its final precarization, as info-work is the point of arrival of a process of abstraction of human cognitive activity, after it has been de-singularized and dis-embodied. De-singularized time and de-personalized cognition are the ultimate agents in the process of valorization : they never fall sick, do not resist through trade unions nor claim political rights ; they are there available, as a cerebral openness out of reach. Cells of pre-formatted productive time can be mobilized and recombined through the tone of a smartphone, re-assembling the individual brains according to the flows in the network.