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Universality of the Net. The Net as an ideal economic-symbolic machine

The goal of the paper is to question the Internet as a tool of abstract, universal instrumentalism and to propose conflict or antagonism as a constitutive for the universality of the Internet. The notion of the Internet as universal tool for overcoming particularities of primary identities, such as religious, ethnic, territorial or national is well elaborated in now classical first volume of Manuel Castells's study The Rise of the Network Society. Castells offered the basic formula of opposition between the Net and its abstract, universal instrumentalism, and the Self that is particular and historically rooted.

political economy ; the Internet ; Žižek ; Lacan

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