Network Culture : Politics for the Information Age

Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1(5) Three Propositions on Informational Cultures 6(33) The Meaning of Information 6(4) Information and Noise 10(10) The Limits of Possibility 20(7) Nonlinearity and Representation 27(12) Network Dynamics 39(34) Network Time 39(3) Of Grids and Networks 42(5) The Paradox of Movement 47(6) A Tendency to Differ 53(10) Fringe Intelligence 63(8) Afterthought 71(2) Free Labour 73(25) The Digital Economy 75(5) Knowledge Class and Immaterial Labour 80(4) Collective Minds 84(4) Ephemeral Commodities and Free Labour 88(6) The Net and the Set 94(4) Soft Control 98(33) Biological Computing 98(3) From Organisms to Multitudes 101(5) Searching a Problem Space 106(2) Global Computation 108(6) Social Emergence 114(2) Hacking the Multitude 116(6) The Unhappy Gene 122(7) Coda on Soft Control 129(2) Communication Biopower 131(27) The New Superpower 131(3) The Masses' Envelopment 134(10) An Intolerant World 144(9) Networked Multitudes 153(5) Notes 158(13) Bibliography 171(8) Index 179