Which Edge?

[Prashant Kumar]

Twentieth-century state power, the thing that administered society from
central offices and hierarchically arranged regional hubs via a system of
top-down memoranda implemented by credentialed, professional middle-class
managers, is today faced with the apparently disintermediating effects of a
new century’s technology. Distributed action, fractured and scattered
communication: a world that resists regulation. So government wants to
capture all of it, wants to consolidate its fractured and scattered
currency of power, wants every train from every scattered line to transit a
central depot. This contest between the centralization and decentralization
of information is the real culture war of our moment.

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