The Current Democracy and the Question of a New Nomos: The Case of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

The purpose of this article is to analyze the relations between democratic political life and techno-scientific configurations that model the current way of living. This work will host the question about a new nomos and it will be based on a case study about the 2016 United States presidential election. This case comes as extremely appropriate because it allows us to think about the way in which data companies and social networks enter to the political arena during the whole campaign. As we could identify, these new configurations of politics can promote democratic participation, deliberately affect circulation of information, increase or diminish engagement to candidates as well as modify electoral behavior of the citizens. Also, it implies evaluating the conditions of existence that the technological totality proposes and needs from the human beings to develop itself. Even though we may not declare that the reason of Donald Trump's triumph was related to these new actors in politics, the case assisted us in the task of illustrating how the democratic ways of governing in the present times intertwine with a new political configuration of political life. Although it may not bring out a new political order, this question addresses the theoretical-political question about the structure of the world, i.e., the question about a new nomos.