Which Edge?

[Lemuel Underwing]

enjoyed the article, thanks for sharin'


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Prashant Kumar <
siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://thebaffler.com/past/street_legal
>
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