The Design of Networks
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The Design of Networks
Power is no longer about occupying territory; it’s about saturating connection. And victory belongs not to the most just, but to the most contagious.
The Design of Networks
We do not live in a world of things. We live in a world of links. And links generate hierarchies long before institutions do.
This explains why the Internet, marketed as a peer-to-peer utopia, collapsed into six platforms (Google, Amazon, Facebook/META, Apple, X/Twitter and Microsoft). It explains why a supposedly free market gives us Amazon, not a... See more
This explains why the Internet, marketed as a peer-to-peer utopia, collapsed into six platforms (Google, Amazon, Facebook/META, Apple, X/Twitter and Microsoft). It explains why a supposedly free market gives us Amazon, not a... See more
The Design of Networks
But the subtext is plain: a world built on networks is not one that can be governed by Enlightenment values. Rationality, equality, deliberation, these are ideals of the linear age. The network obeys different laws.