Year: 2005
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter analyses how some of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concepts have been used in relation to the Internet, focusing mainly on their concept of the rhizome. It suggests that people should not start with the idea that the Internet might be a body without organs, or a rhizome, or anything else for that matter, and stresses the need to first consider how a new assemblage such as the Internet actually works in order to develop the appropriate concepts. The chapter challenges the idea that the Internet is somehow expressive of a new kind of politics and contends that it is simply another institution used by capitalism to extract surplus value from the economy.
Author: Ian Buchanan
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2157477548