Global politics in the information age

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Mark J. Lacy
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While there are many dangers in informational politics, dangers that risk to exhaust the morality-and-politics agenda and control the excess of information, the system is leaking and hierarchies of good/bad or optimism/pessimism fail to capture the complexities of global politics in an information age. The book explores the networked information society from a number of perspectives and locations, from the strategies used by the state apparatus through to the strategies of resistance that are opening up to those who feel that the 'global society' is not the route to a secure cosmopolitan space of freedom and security. It rejects the heroic narrative in which citizens simply discover the 'truth' or achieve 'moral proximity' and open up the possibility of a more enlightened planetary order, the type of narrative that Gray would argue is the Prozac of the thinking classes. The book begins with Developing a new speech for global security: exploring the rhetoric of evil in the Bush administration response to 9.11.01 by Timothy Luke. People's lived experience in the Information Age, their engagement with the im/materiality of cultural forms in the contexts of their everyday life, is of paramount concern when systems of representation are at stake. At the level of ideology the end of the Cold War began the erosion of the alignments of left-right, east-west, capitalist-communist which had structured the global politics of the twentieth century.

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