Today, humanity has the capacity to alter one of its core characteristics—its indivisibility—in order to better understand itself and its peers. Technology and science provide this possibility. Big data acts as a scalpel, allowing us to analyze and break down individuals into "dividuals." The dividual is the individual divided, fragmented into several pieces, taken apart. Or, more precisely, the dividual is the product of this fragmentation—the piece, the fragment itself.

Michel Foucault identified three types of forces in every society: powers, knowledge, and processes of subjectivation.

"It is this third type that a data-driven social organization, such as big data, targets to achieve maximum efficiency." (Adapted excerpt from Alain Damasio's work: The Outer Zone. ISBN 978.2.03.127996.2).

"By merging with computing, numbers have become digital signals (lists, buttons, counters, recommendations, news feeds, personalized advertising, GPS routes, etc.) that adorn every interface we constantly caress with a click. They penetrate our daily lives so intimately that we barely perceive the long chains connecting these friendly, colorful screens to the vast statistical infrastructures that the digital revolution installs in distant data servers." (Excerpt from Dominique Cardon's essay: What Algorithms Dream Of. ISBN 2-84358-095-1)

The work of the individual watches you, digitizes you, and projects your dividual. Is it the only one?