Network Culture: Politics For the Information Age - Brossura

Terranova, Tiziana

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ISBN 10: 0745317480 ISBN 13: 9780745317489

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2004

Riassunto

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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Tiziana Terranova brings to questions of network culture and politics both a keen philosophical perspective and a deep understanding of the history and technology of information networks. She shows in wonderfully clear terms how our increasingly networked world brings harsher forms of domination but also opens the possibility for new struggles of liberation. (Michael Hardt, co-author (with Antonio Negri) of Empire)

This book is a genuine achievement. Terranova gives the reader a notion of new media that extends all the way to artificial life. Then she takes this concoction and makes it political. Required reading for media theorists, evolutionary biology junkies and activists. (Scott Lash, Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Tiziana Terranova shows that the internet generation of cultural theorists, beyond boom and bust, are here to stay. In Network Culture theory is no longer an alien accelerator but is hardwired into the online everyday. Free of post-modern obscurity, Terranova calls for broad public support of open networks. Networks change the working conditions of millions and create new social conditions – and tensions. Shortcutting engineering culture with culture jamming activists, Network Culture reports of a 'techno-science for all' in which networks are not so much tools but environments. As an uncompromising mediator, Terranova positions technology-specific issues in wider globalisation debates, reflecting on the way that today's 'distributed' movements are intermingled with global communication networks. (Geert Lovink is an Amsterdam-based media theorist and author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks and My First Recession.)

L'autore

Tiziana Terranova teaches the sociology of media and culture in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She has published various pamphlets and essays on digital cultures, in Italian and English.

Stephen Nugent is the head of the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, a song writer (with Ian Dury) and the author (with Humphrey Ocean) of Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks (Fourth Estate, 1990). Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). His most recent publications are: Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge', Oxford/New York: Berghahn (co-edited with Susanna Trnka, 2013) and 'The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology'.

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0745317480
• ISBN 13: 9780745317489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192