Vernetzte Steuerung: Soziale Prozesse im Zeitalter technischer Netzwerke

摘要

"Networked Control," the title of this collection of essays, seems almost an oxymoron in today's technology studies. Networks have long since displaced control and the technocratic fantasies that went with them as the main paradigm in studying technology in society. This displacement happened within the wider movement of substituting governmentality for disciplinary power and evolution for planning, not least given the historical failure that was associated with the latter.