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Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age

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This is an innovative study of digital culture, in particular the politics of the emerging digital culture, and especially the cultural and political dimensions of network technologies. Across the cybercultural landscape of mailing lists, discussion groups, e-zines and the digital press, it sees the emergence of a new collective political subject, a networked intelligence.

The author touches on key concepts and debates in cultural theory and cultural politics, and makes use of student-friendly examples including cyberfeminism, activism and cyberorganising on the net – such as J18, Seattle, and the anti-war movement.

Terranova presents a sophisticated argument about what the new forms of communication and organisation mean for politics, democracy, and identity. The book draws on online debates about labour, self-organisation, virtual activism, and future identities to outline some of the features of current societies of control (following Hardt and Negri) and the political answers that are being formulated within these new digital cultures.

Author(s): Tiziana Terranova
Publisher: Pluto Press
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 191

Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
The Meaning of Information......Page 13
Information and Noise......Page 17
The Limits of Possibility......Page 27
Nonlinearity and Representation......Page 34
Network Time......Page 46
Of Grids and Networks......Page 49
The Paradox of Movement......Page 54
A Tendency to Differ......Page 60
Fringe Intelligence......Page 70
Afterthought......Page 78
3. Free Labour......Page 80
The Digital Economy......Page 82
Knowledge Class and Immaterial Labour......Page 87
Collective Minds......Page 91
Ephemeral Commodities and Free Labour......Page 95
The Net and the Set......Page 101
Biological Computing......Page 105
From Organisms to Multitudes......Page 108
Searching a Problem Space......Page 113
Global Computation......Page 115
Social Emergence......Page 121
Hacking the Multitude......Page 123
The Unhappy Gene......Page 129
Coda on Soft Control......Page 136
The New Superpower......Page 138
The Masses' Envelopment......Page 141
An Intolerant World......Page 151
Networked Multitudes......Page 160
Notes......Page 165
Bibliography......Page 178
Index......Page 186