Platforms promise the disintermediation and self-determination of the individual, but at the same time they prove capable of exercising widespread social control, which af- fects every aspect of life: from education, consumption, health, the sentimental and sexual life of subjects, to the world of work. The latter is the subject of a particularly meticulous analysis by Pisani, who high- lights how the model of algorithmic governmentality proves suitable for interpreting platform-mediated work: work in the times of the on-demand economy