Infrastructure, Modulation, Portal: Thinking with Foucault about How Internet Architecture Shapes Subjects.
Following Foucault's remarks on the importance of architecture to disciplinary power, this paper offers a typology of power relations expressed in different models of Internet governance. Infrastructure governance understands the Internet as a common pool or public resource, on the model of traditio...
| Publicado en: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 84 - 115 |
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2022
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