Document Type
Article
Abstract
When we think about information as power, we usually think
about individuals, groups, and nations using information and
information goods as a resource that helps them gain advantages over
others. In this essay, however, I am interested in how the globalized
information networks create new forms of power that transcend
people's conscious design. Digital information technologies, I shall
argue, enmesh individuals, groups, and nations in proliferating
networks of power which they neither fully understand nor fully
control, and which, in fact, are controlled by no one in particular.
Date of Authorship for this Version
2011
Recommended Citation
Information Power: The Information Society from an Antihumanist Perspective, in THE GLOBAL FLOW OF INFORMATION (Eddan Katz and Ramesh Subramanian, eds., N.Y.U. Press 2011)