<nettime-ann> NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS: INFORMATION POLITICS: Liberation and

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS

INFORMATION POLITICS:

Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society

by Tim Jordan

First in the new DIGITAL BARRICADES series

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Praise for INFORMATION POLITICS:

âA must read for those seeking to understand the impact of digital culture and their attendant communication technologies on our quest for liberty and equalityâ â Hector Postigo, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Production, Temple University

âA determined philosophical inquiry into the nature of information politics, from the abstraction of the cloud to the battlegrounds of hactivists, to identify the forms of exploitation and liberation endemic to the recursive movement of informationâ â Tarleton Gillespie, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University

âTim Jordan has yet again produced a compelling and incisive account of fundamental developments in our increasingly digital world. His sophisticated theoretical analysis is clearly articulated and is based on a thorough grasp of both the technical and the social. He brilliantly avoids both cultural pessimism and techno-utopianism in his presentation of âpolitical antagonismsâ.â â Sally Wyatt, Professor of Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht University

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Conflict over information has become a central part of twenty-first century politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media.

In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information politics that emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. He also locates it within a field of power and rebellion that is populated by many interwoven social and political conflicts including gender, class and ecology.

The exploitations both facilitated by, and contested through, increases in information flows; the embedding of information technologies in daily life, and the intersection of network and control protocols are all examined in Information Politics. Anyone hoping to get to grips with the rapidly changing terrain of digital culture and conflict should start here.

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