Description
Book SynopsisA sophisticated argument about how the internet and communication networks impact on politics, democracy, and identity.
Trade Review'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
'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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Three Propositions On Informational Cultures
2. Open Networks
3. Free Labour
4. Soft Control
5. Communications’ Biopower
Bibliography
Index
