Networked Culture

Provisionally here instead of under Network Culture, which is already the title of another book.

* Book in Progress: Network Culture. Kazys Varnelis.

URL = http://varnelis.net/network_culture

Description

"My current research project—already well underway—is a book that sets out to synthesize a historical understanding of our era, coming to terms with the changed conditions in culture, subjectivity, ideology, and aesthetics that characterize our new, networked age. I explore how the network is not merely a technology with social ramifications but rather unites changes in society, economy, aesthetics, and ideology.

Just as the machine made modern industrialization possible and also acted as a model for a rationalized, compartmentalized modern society while the programmable computer served the same role for the flexible socioeconomic milieu of postmodernism, today the network not only connects the world, it reconfigures our relationship to it. In this book I will argue that many of the key tenets of culture since the Enlightenment: the subject, the novel, the public sphere, are being radically reshaped.

Beyond the Introduction, now posted below, the conclusion to Networked Publics, available here is a good entry point to what I am trying to do."