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Matteo Pasquinelli: notes on the speech “Digital Neofeudalism” for Transmediale 2010

September 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Download the original pdf from Matteo Pasquinelli‘s site.

Also read:
“Digital Neofeudalism:” Notes on Mario Carpo’s The Alphabet and the Algorithm, on: The City as a Project (the Berlage Institut PhD program)


To raise a question about the future always also implies to ask for the actualisation of the political and, in particular, ethical concepts for the society that we live in today. We are about to lose our operational sense for ethics, politics and culture. Rather, we see ourselves confronted with a depersonalised politics and a ‘desubjectified’ communication as the result of two factors: the disappearance of the political body with institutions capable of acting on the one hand; and increasingly faster digital social media tools that reduce the space for reaction and reflexion on the other hand. This is a moment of crisis where we must think about the role of social media. Due to the recent events in which social networking sites have replaced traditional news coverage it seems worthy to closely examine the ‘radical’ role of tools like Twitter and Facebook as ‘revolutionary’ media. Are we dealing with a new force, a new social mechanism for the exchange of information, a new truth? Or are we only listening to a new siren song?

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