Network Cosmology and the Exhaustion of Critique

Abstract

Part II of the book offered an analysis of the digital discourse pertaining to the intersection of network technology with key sites of the new capitalism: the market, work, production, and the human. It underscored how the digital discourse constructs a spirit of networks that legitimizes new constellations of power, new modes of work, new relations of production, and new ways of being. Part III of the book offers two concluding discussions that highlight two theoretical and sociological dimensions of the digital discourse. Chapter 7 registers and explains the technologistic facet of the discourse on network technology. It further asks, “What is the social meaning of a discourse that revolves on technology as its axis of understanding and presentation?” Chapter 8 summarizes the main findings of the book, reiterates its central arguments, and delves into the ideological and political dimensions of the digital discourse as the new spirit of network capitalism.