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Index
Cover
Title Page
Preface to the English Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: After the End of the Gutenberg Galaxy
Notes
I: Evolution
The Expansion of the Social Basis of Culture
The growth of the knowledge economy
The erosion of heteronormativity
Beyond center and periphery
The Culturalization of the World
Beyond the object
Culture everywhere
The Technologization of Culture
The independent media
Media as lifeworlds
Networks as places of action
From the Margins to the Center of Society
Notes
II: Forms
Referentiality
Information overload 1.0
Information overload 2.0
The great disorder
Selecting and organizing
The loop through the body
Lineages and transformations
Communality
The problem of the “community”
Singularity and communality
Authenticity and subjectivity
Space and time as a communal practice
Self-generating orders
Ambivalent voluntariness
The power of sociability
Homogeneity, difference and authority
Algorithmicity
Exiting the “Library of Babel”
The rise of algorithms
Dynamic algorithms
Sorting, ordering, extracting
Algorithm clouds
From the data shadow to the synthetic profile
Variables and correlations
Data behaviorism
Notes
III: Politics
Post-democracy
Social mass media as an everyday aspect of post-democratic life
Centralization and the power of networks
Selling, predicting, modifying
The dark shadow of cybernetics
Networks as monopolies
Political surveillance
The normalization of post-democracy
Forms of resistance
Commons
The organization of the commons
Informational common goods: free software and free culture
At the interface with physical space: open data
Municipal infrastructures as commons: citizen networks
Eroding the commons: cloud software and the sharing economy
Against a Lack of Alternatives
Notes
Copyright page
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