User:Lidia.Pereira/GRS5/NTS/ON

• "Theorists and artists of new media (...) reproduce similar network homologies in the valorisation of open, decentralised, distributed, egalitarian and emergent social-technical forms. In so doing, the discursive and social-technical form of networks is attributed an ontological status. The so-called openness, fluidity and contingency of networks is rendered in essentialist terms that function to elide the complexities and contradictions that comprise the uneven spatio-temporal dimensions and material practices of networks. Similarly, the force of the 'constitutive outside' is frequently dismissed by media and cultural theorists in favor of delirious discourses of openness and horizontality."

• "Whatever the peculiarities the network refrain may take, there is a predominant tendency to overlook the ways in which networks are produced by regimes of power, economies of desire and the restless rhythms of global capital."