Dopo Internet: Le reti digitali tra capitale e comune

by Tiziana Terranova

Internet non esiste più. E se ancora sopravvive, è soltanto come tecnologia residuale. Piuttosto, dopo oltre vent’anni e un paio di crisi finanziarie, la Rete è ormai diventata lo sfondo quasi impercettibile di un’infrastruttura tecnologica pervasiva e planetaria, in cui si intrecciano come una maglia comunicazione e il Complesso delle Piattaforme.
Nei saggi raccolti in questo libro, scritti nel corso del decennio che dalla fine degli anni Zero porta ai primi Duemilaventi, TizianaTerranova assiste a questa mostruosa trasformazione chiamando in causa le teorie del capitalismo cognitivo e della cooperazione simpatetica, analizzando l’economia dell’attenzione e le sue psicopatologie, riprendendo il discorso sul rapporto tra automazione e comune.
Il risultato è uno sguardo in tempo reale sulle mutazioni che hanno trasformato in maniera irreparabile l’ethos tecnologico, culturale ed economico di Internet.L’originaria utopia orizzontale della Rete è morta, estinta, liquidata dallo strapotere delle corporation e dalle logiche algoritmiche dei social network.
Eppure Dopo Internet non è né un lamento apocalittico né una malinconica storia di grandi aspettative tradite. Al contrario, Terranova scruta tra le pieghe del passato recente per svelare le futurità ancora possibili nel presente post-digitale.
Traduzione di Beatrice Ferrara.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Philosophy

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2024

Reviews

[Mickey Smith]

will have to come back to this one. ironically felt like someone fed all of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus into GPT and it sprayed out 170 pages of critical theory for critical theory's sake. perhaps a re-read will give it some more substance to me, but the main things that it had to say re: networks of capital that get built up in a sphere very different from the original internet were intuitable from the author's semi-fictitious science-fiction/political polemic letter included in the book that seemed to be the impetus for writing the piece.

[a____ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Red Cybernetics

[Michael Kent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Expanded my thinking on both the evolving integration of the internet (or digital platforms) into our everyday lives, and the competition for, degradation of, and commodification of people’s limited attention. Opening essays and closing essay fairly accessible, middle ones increasingly dense for lay people.

[reoccurrence]

What I understood, I liked. What I didn’t understand was probably good too. I am not well versed in Theory. I will not rate it because I was not well read enough to read this haha

[Helena Thomas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really liked the first 3 essays and thought the intro gave a great high-level account of digital cultures and ideologies from 1960-2010s as well as the fundamental difference between the "internet" and Web 2.0 (Corporate Platform Complex, as Terranova calls it). Underwhelmed by essay 4 on how algs could be harnessed to construct "new potentialities for post-neoliberal modes of government and postcapitalist modes of production" - really wanted that one to blow my mind but felt it fell short of any profound / compelling proposals. Totally confused and annoyed by essay 5, but probably because I haven't read any Leibniz and don't understand the concept of neomonadology (plus am generally skeptical of postmodernist ontological theory).

Definitely not an accessible read for those who haven't taken a few humanities-based STS courses.

[Kenneth Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was painfully boring. I understand the intent behind what the thesis of the book is (the irrevocable change of the internet, the corporate influence upon internet outreach), it just feels very hamfisted. these essays are not particularly well-written either. but it gets 2 instead of anything lower because the subject material is, at the end of the day, very interesting. in fact, the material is the saving grace

[Paul Nunes]

Most of this has gone over my head. The parts I understood well resonated powerfully with me.

[Cole Blouin]

It's good! Loved the part about neomonadology.

[Martyna · Rating 4 out of 5]

bardzo ciekawy i mądry zbiór esejów o internecie i jego wpływie na kapitalizm i społeczeństwo. najbardziej podobał mi się ostatni esej.

[Wendi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first few chapters offered really good.& concise summaries of what has happened to internet x capitalism. I stopped paying attention once it got to Deleuze & Guattari…

[Dominique Rowell · Rating 3 out of 5]

What are we going to do about this internet thing? Let it destroy the entire world? Probably.