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In an age of email lists and discussion groups, e-zines and
weblogs, bringing together users, consumers, workers and activists
from around the globe, what kinds of political subjectivity are
emerging? What kinds of politics become possible in a time of
information overload and media saturation? What structures of power
and control operate over a self-organising system like the
internet?In this highly original new work, Tiziana Terranova
investigates the political dimension of the network culture in
which we now live, and explores what the new forms of communication
and organisation might mean for our understanding of power and
politics. Terranova engages with key concepts and debates in
cultural theory and cultural politics, using examples from media
culture, computing, network dynamics, and internet activism within
the anti-capitalist and anti-war movements. Network Culture
concludes that the nonlinear network dynamics that link different
modes of communication at different levels (from local radio to
satellite television, from the national press to the internet, from
broadcasting to rumours and conspiracy theories) provide the
conditions within which another politics can emerge. This other
politics, the book suggests, does not entail the production of a
new political discourse or ideology, but the invention of
micropolitical tactics able to stand up to new forms of social
control.
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