Titre | Le réseau mis en oeuvre : le Rêve de Diderot | |
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Auteur | Éric Letonturier | |
Revue | Flux | |
Numéro | no 24, avril-juin 1996 | |
Page | 5-19 | |
Résumé anglais |
entries, the articles are sites which refer to other sites, along paths which anindividual is free to travel. The circulation which puts these objects into close relationship is facilitated by the heuristic fertility of the analogies. In physiology, Diderot, relying on the fibrillary theories of Haller and Bordeu, delivers the genetic concept of the network in terms of points and lines. The network guarantees a generalized communications model in which all the parts are linked and integrated on an equal level but still autonomous and free of the authoritative supervision of one unique command procedure. Since the organism is polycentric, its integrity must rely upon collaboration and concensus, and in the egalitarian division of competence and power of all the parts; each one of which, due to the network linking it to the others, is capable of deregulating the whole. It is this same ideal that Diderot, drawing from the same meta- phoric source (spider webs, bee swarms...) develops in his political works, since the network promotes the idea of an organization which regulates and causes private and public interests to correspond. The relations of domination and obedience cancel each other out to the advantage of multilateral exchanges between rulers and ruled, by means of a set of conductive channels which will serve as the relay between individual liberty, the spirit of initiative and the participation of citizens in the plan of civilization. The success of this new social model of linkage will be measured according to the degree of socio-economic mobility and the circulation of goods and persons. Three times, then, the network is the form that provides new intelligibility for Diderot's thought and, by stressing a topology of knowledge, life and politics in terms of link and flow, results in a re-equilibration of the functions and mediating authorities within a configuration that is a-hierarchical, decentered and fluid. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1996_num_12_24_1183 |