This article provides an original exploration of the self-identified populist coalition leading the Italian government between 2018 and 2019. The analysis, informed by a governmentality approach, starts by scrutinising the economic, social, and cultural issues framed as political “problems” by the coalition, also highlighting the tensions underlying such constructions. The second step charts how this political subject sought to address those problems by deploying an array of political technologies. From examining these two dimensions, the article then can discern the composite rationality—techno-sovereignism—that drove precariously the coalition’s art of government. Finally, the article sketches out some forms of contestation against the techno-sovereignist operations, whose significance may stretch beyond the Italian borders. Overall, although the Italian populist coalition turned out to be ephemeral, the dynamics that characterized its emergence and functioning could still be used heuristically to understand the interactions and reciprocal adjustments possibly used by right-wing and technocratic populist groups to exert political power conjointly.

本文提供了对意大利政府在2018年至2019年间领导的自我认同的民粹主义联盟的原始探索。该分析是在以政府方法为基础的情况下，首先对经济，社会和文化问题进行审查，这些问题被意大利政府视为政治“问题”联盟，也突显了这种建设背后的紧张关系。第二步绘制图表，说明这个政治主题如何通过部署一系列政治技术来解决这些问题。通过考察这两个方面，本文可以发现综合理性（技术主权主义），这种理性推动了联盟的政府艺术的发展。最后，本文勾勒出了针对技术君主主义行动的某些形式的对抗，其意义可能超越了意大利的边界。总体，