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Exploring New Configurations of Network Politics

探索网络政治新格局

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H001654/1
负责人：
Joss Hands
金额：
$ 4.65万
依托单位：
Anglia Ruskin University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2009 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH001654%2F1
关键词：
Exploring New Configurations Network Politics

项目摘要

The way in which social structures have been reoriented in the wake of new media, particularly the internet, have led to the claim that we are now living in a 'network society', a term coined by Manuel Castells. Such a shift has profound implications for all areas of life, including politics in all its forms.The aim of this project is to map the challenge to traditional politics (including cultural politics) that this network society poses. In particular the widely held perception that representational democratic politics are under question. We see political hierarchies undermined by networks, claims to specialist knowledge increasingly coming under strain, and notions of the political subject, as defined by a vote every four or five years, no longer making sense in this new situation. Thus we aim to explore the idea that there may be a new kind of politics, and a new sense of what the political might entail, coming to fruition. We aim to develop a perspective on what this might be, through an address to emerging theoretical approaches and to new forms of political practice, both at the grass roots and the formal institutional levels of politics. To achieve this aim the project will gather together established and emerging scholars who will address topics including: the alter-globalization movement; social networking as a new political force; hacking as a new paradigm of dissent. Also to be explored is a range of new concepts and social forms, for example: smart mobs; viral campaigns; open source production; collective intelligence; rhizomatic multitudes, amongst others. Naturally the technologies of new media that make this all possible will also be a key site of enquiry, and will be a central theme across the whole project.The project, as well as having a predefined agenda, must recognise the reality that this may not be sufficient to capture the complex emerging phenomenon described. Thus the need for flexibility and adaptability will be recognised and encouraged. For example, the network will work towards a new, more immanent analysis of the emerging forms of social relations, identities, political forms, discourses and activism. This should include innovative approaches to grasping collective ways of being, organising and interacting, and what these will be is likely to only emerge as part of the process of the project. Hence, instead of starting with an entirely predetermined agenda, the networking project aims to stay open to new conceptual and thematic approaches. Of course, we do have to start by engaging existing frameworks of thought, and will therefore draw from a broad cannon to encourage a flexibility of approach. Here thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jürgen Habermas, Douglas Kellner and Antonio Negri, will be drawn upon. Beyond this the network will critically evaluate the existing agenda in mainstream politics and the media, and try to find blind spots, neglected issues and novel ideas for further collaboration.Thus the guiding rationale for the network will be to draw on a broad range of expertise from different disciplines within academia. These will be primarily media and communication studies, philosophy, social theory and cultural studies, but will address the broader community to include knowledge from other sources and institutions via, for example, artists, practitioners, activists and technologists. As a global phenomenon, international perspectives are imperative. As such the network will draw contributions from a wide range of economic, geographic and cultural points of view. In this context, the research expertise of Northern American scholars, with theoretically innovative interdisciplinary centres and the role of the U.S. as an economic and technological hub, are of high significance for the network. Similarly significant will be the development of links with institutes in Asia and continental Europe.

在新媒体，特别是互联网之后，社会结构被重新定位的方式导致了我们现在生活在一个“网络社会”中的说法，这是曼努埃尔·卡斯特创造的一个术语。这种转变对生活的各个领域都有深远的影响，包括各种形式的政治。本项目的目的是描绘这种网络社会对传统政治（包括文化政治）的挑战。特别是人们普遍认为代议制民主政治受到质疑。我们看到政治等级制度被网络所破坏，对专业知识的要求越来越受到压力，每四年或五年一次的投票所定义的政治主体的概念在这种新形势下不再有意义。因此，我们的目标是探索这样一种想法，即可能会有一种新的政治，以及一种新的政治可能带来的意义，即将实现。我们的目标是通过解决新兴的理论方法和新形式的政治实践，无论是在基层和正式的政治制度层面，发展一种观点，这可能是什么。为了实现这一目标，该项目将聚集建立和新兴的学者谁将解决的主题，包括：alter-globalization运动;社交网络作为一种新的政治力量;黑客作为异议的新范式。还将探讨一系列新的概念和社会形式，例如：聪明的暴民;病毒式运动;开源生产;集体智慧;根茎群众等等。当然，使这一切成为可能的新媒体技术也将是一个关键的调查点，并将成为整个项目的中心主题。该项目，以及有一个预定义的议程，必须认识到这可能不足以捕捉所描述的复杂的新兴现象的现实。因此，灵活性和适应性的需要将得到承认和鼓励。例如，该网络将致力于对新出现的社会关系、身份、政治形式、话语和行动主义进行新的、更直接的分析。这应该包括创新的方法来把握集体的存在方式，组织和互动，这些可能只会成为项目过程的一部分。因此，网络项目不是从一个完全预先确定的议程开始，而是旨在对新的概念和主题方法保持开放。当然，我们必须首先利用现有的思想框架，因此将从广泛的大炮中汲取力量，鼓励采取灵活的做法。在这里，我们将借鉴乔治·阿甘本、阿兰·巴迪乌、吉尔·德勒兹、于尔根·哈贝马斯、道格拉斯·凯尔纳和安东尼奥·内格里等思想家的思想。除此之外，该网络将批判性地评估主流政治和媒体的现有议程，并试图找到盲点、被忽视的问题和新的想法，以便进一步合作，因此，该网络的指导思想将是借鉴学术界不同学科的广泛专门知识。这些将主要是媒体和传播研究，哲学，社会理论和文化研究，但将解决更广泛的社区，包括来自其他来源和机构的知识，例如，艺术家，从业者，活动家和技术专家。作为一种全球现象，国际视角是必不可少的。因此，该网络将从广泛的经济、地理和文化观点中汲取意见。在这种情况下，北方美国学者的研究专长，具有理论创新的跨学科中心和美国作为经济和技术中心的作用，对网络具有重要意义。与亚洲和欧洲大陆的研究所发展联系也具有同样重要的意义。