Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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c i t i z e n s h i p a n d d i g i t a l n e t w o r k s<br />
possibilities of storage of their personal files and with the ease of one sole password<br />
enabling access to a multiplicity of relationship networks. The cyberlivings have, in<br />
the digital networks, more power of communication, of relationship, and influence<br />
potential. The more they participate in the network, the more they contribute for<br />
the definition of stan<strong>da</strong>rds, more <strong>da</strong>ta on their interests and their behaviors is disseminated,<br />
the more controlled it is.<br />
Finally, it is necessary to be careful not to naturalize the technologies and its<br />
protocols. Does the distributed nature of network communication demand control<br />
protocols? Is that a law like the law of gravity? Is it effectively impossible to think of<br />
transformation of the cybernetic nature of network communication? Would it not<br />
be possible to think of protocols an in communication rules ensuring communicative<br />
nomadism? We can suppose that interactive communication can exist without<br />
the need of localization in space, but only in cyberspace, of the communicating<br />
machines. But the solution is not technical, it is ethical and political. The communicational<br />
thinking hegemony in our societies has built the creed that full anonymity<br />
would have a disintegrating role. Thus, the new biopolitics enter the digital<br />
networks to protect the teenagers’ “behavioral health”, the safety of our children,<br />
also seeking to articulate the contention of the religious fanatics that can, at any moment,<br />
convert into terrorists. It takes place in a control situation, wherein diagrams<br />
of the old surveillance have not disappeared and are always called to operate the<br />
politics “in defense of the species”.<br />
Hobbesian moment and ambivalences<br />
Currently, we are not simply livings, but cyberlivings, for our sociability is increasingly<br />
going through digital networks of communication and control. Our lives<br />
are increasingly depending upon passwords and our communicational stan<strong>da</strong>rd is<br />
kept in <strong>da</strong>tabases of large corporations. We are controlled without being forced and<br />
oppressively submitted to the controls. We adhere to that and are happy for their<br />
existence. We even pay for them.<br />
These procedures of subjection to cybernetic communication are probable expressions<br />
of a control society which Deleuze referred to. In the same manner, we live<br />
an ambivalent moment that extrapolates control. In it, fight against terrorism is the<br />
keyword, in the United States, to terrorize and justify the actions of the Government<br />
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