"The fetish of information. How we believe that information will save or destroy the world"
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The fetish of information. How we believe that information will save or destroy the world
Nico Carpentier
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Utopian perspectives
• CNC = broadcasting & narrowcasting + interactivity + low cost + accessibility
E.g., Negroponte• Industry replaced by information economy• “all information for all people at all times”
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Rosenfeld and Morville "Information Architecture for the world wide web"
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‘information devours its own contents; it devours communication and the social’
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Fetish
Substitute for, or condensation of, desire in one object or situation
Freud (sexual fetish) and Marx (commodity fetishism)
All the social condensed in information – both dystopian and utopian approaches
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Different questions
Displacement.
Why?
At what expense?
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Fantasies• Predicting the future• Maintaining the overview (Alexandria)• Hypervisibility and tangibility of power• Comprehensibility of the One structure• Controlling (will to power)
Hiding & displacing• Knowledge• Complex power logics in society (govermentality / empty seat of power / hegemonies)