| Titre | L'information généralisée comme procédure d'éradication du monde social | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 24, avril-juin 1996 | |
| Page | 21-33 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The information highway, and networks like Internet, aim to provide direct access to a potentially unlimited stock of information, and they intend to do this through standardized procedures. This is their real goal, rather than simply increasing the rapidity of the communication process. Thus they seem to operate a double process of rupture - with an initial elaboration (contextually situated) of the data involved (demateriali- zation of supply) and with the experimental process of know- ledge which leads to questioning (deserialization of demand, or inquiry). Both thus create a fictitious context in which a universal and timeless "right" to information is supposed to occur, within a general process of simulation of the real world. This leads to an eradication of the process of information of the practical social system, transporting it into a uni-demensional world of simulacrum: this is the very image which the major science fiction novels have always given us, dominated by a huge, omnipotent computer. 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_1184 |
