This thesis examines algorithmic profiling through the concept of necropolitics, as formulated by the philosopher Achille Mbembe, and explores the functioning of algorithmic systems in the social classification and evaluation of subjects. Drawing on previous theoretical discussions of biopolitics, necropolitics, racialization, colonialism, and capitalism, the thesis analyzes the transformation of contemporary forms of power in the context of digitalization and datafication. Particular attention is given to algorithms as immanent component of the global infrastructure of decision-making, following Jonathan Beller, within which data are used to categorize, evaluate, and differentially govern populations. The thesis demonstrates that, through the reproduction of existing regimes of differentiation, exclusion, and inequality, algorithmic profiling cannot be understood merely as a neutral technological process. Rather, in its complexity, it emerges as a mechanism of necropolitical classification that renders certain subjects more visible, thereby granting them protection and inclusion, while placing others in a position of invisibility and condemning them to abandonment.
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