Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and organization, and in particular, between business organizations and the recent revolution in military affairs that has been called 'information warfare'. The main themes discussed include the network society, knowledge management, nomadic strategy, information warfare, power and identity.
Author(s): IAIN MUNRO
Edition: annotated edition
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 216
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Information warfare in business......Page 12
Part II: The weapon of information......Page 18
Part III: Changing power relations......Page 20
Part l Creative organizational forms......Page 23
2 Strategies for the Information Age......Page 24
Strategy and invasion......Page 25
Nomadic wisdom: strategy as movement......Page 30
Principles of a nomadic strategy: the Arab revolt......Page 32
Nomads and guerrillas: a way of life or a means to an end?......Page 35
The Zapatistas: informational guerrillas......Page 38
An Information Age strategy: Linux?......Page 41
Information Age strategy: Napster and Gnutella?......Page 43
The Slow Food Society......Page 44
Innovators or parasites?......Page 45
Towards a theory of information nomadism: smooth space......Page 48
Conclusions and connections......Page 51
3 Mapping knowledge......Page 53
Knowledge: mapping a territory......Page 54
Knowledge management as cartography......Page 56
Mapping the body: intellectual property and biosocial maps......Page 59
Problems and contradictions of mapping knowledge......Page 61
Creativity......Page 62
Alienation......Page 63
Is information a scarce resource?......Page 64
The creation of information anti-markets......Page 65
Models of representation and labyrinths of creation......Page 66
Knowledge as commodity and knowledge as common good......Page 69
The new cartographers of organization......Page 70
Part II The weapon of information......Page 72
4 Organization, society and information warfare......Page 73
Material conditions and the power of ideas......Page 74
Introducing information war......Page 77
Civilians: agents of information war......Page 81
Propaganda and public relations......Page 82
Intelligence and secrecy......Page 86
Weapons and tools......Page 87
The technology of information warfare......Page 89
Speed and information......Page 95
Disruption and the internalization of information warfare......Page 97
Violence, terror and the omnicrisis......Page 98
Maintaining identity and identity attacks......Page 100
A review of aims, methods and techniques......Page 103
The power of the virus metaphor......Page 106
The network of disease: biological contamination......Page 107
The network of machines: the contamination of computers......Page 110
Pathological identities and moral diseases......Page 111
Networks of words: the contamination of language......Page 114
Contamination of language in business speak......Page 117
Contamination of language in war speak......Page 120
Disruption and the multiplication of channels......Page 123
Destroying the word virus......Page 124
Reconsidering metaphors of organization......Page 127
Part III Changing power relations......Page 130
6 Power relations in the Information Age......Page 131
What is power?......Page 133
The diagram of power......Page 135
From discipline to biopower......Page 137
Communication networks and immaterial labour......Page 138
Controlling flows: connecting nodes......Page 141
The social divide......Page 143
Social integration and cybernetic modulation......Page 146
Cybernetics and superman......Page 149
The network diagram of power: hierarchies and rhizomes......Page 153
7 Real-time......Page 156
Time and control 1: money......Page 157
Time and control 2: the real subsumption of society......Page 160
Information warfare and real-time control......Page 161
Nietzsche: the creative time of history......Page 164
Bergson: the creative time of duration......Page 168
Duration, cinema and invention......Page 169
Negri: the creative time of the multitude......Page 172
The time of information warfare: towards a biopolitical time......Page 175
8 Conclusions, connections, lines of flight......Page 177
Notes......Page 186
Bibliography......Page 188
Index......Page 197
