Situating cyberspace (original) (raw)
Cyberspace' has become a rather familiar term in a relatively short period of time, a term referring to a technologically generated environment within which various communicative activities occur. The technologies involved in the production of cyberspace work toward the creation of a seemingly self-contained and separate world. This 'separateness' is often taken as fact, foreclosing any discussion of cyberspace as an instrumental space produced by the wider social space of late capitalism. It is a space which functions; it automates and operationalizes the specific networks of information, space, and power that are involved in the production and reproduction of political, economic, and social relations. Cyberspace, as it currently exists, is not just a space, but a discourse about a space-a name given to a certain desire for a social space whose contours are emerging from within late capitalism. This discourse is defined by the proposal that a new and electronically constituted space must be created in order to manage the increasingly large field of information that has come into being through the activities of globalized late capital and the social welfare state. The strategic goal of the proposal is this: rather than controlling the informational topographies that exist in any given geographical place, these places are interlinked and combined into a networked electronic topography. The ability to actually create and define an apparently independent, electronic geography allows control to be 'built in' to the space in advance via the use of standardized data formats and protocols for use. 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