Manual override and G. da Empoli's politics of exception

The text analyzes the concept of 'manual override' as a strategy for bypassing institutional procedures to achieve rapid results, which is characteristic of the modern governance model described by Giuliano da Empoli. The author contrasts this approach with Max Weber's theory of rational-legal domination and Carl Schmitt's concept of sovereignty, who defines the sovereign as the person who decides on the state of exception. The core issue is the moment when extraordinary instruments for protecting order become an alternative method of ordinary governance. The article points to the conflict between bureaucratic predictability and the pursuit of immediate effectiveness, emphasizing the attempt to regulate the exception itself within modern constitutionalism to prevent discretion from turning into pure arbitrariness.