This examination of the impact of electronic and digital media, prior to the arrival of the smartphone and social networks, is based on a premise: the next society is the computer society.
That society, for Dirk Baecker, differs dramatically from the society of the printing press in a similar way to what the ancient writing society did: if Antiquity had to deal with an excess of symbols and Modernity with an excess of criticism, the The next society will be characterized by an excess of control.
Niklas Luhmann has pointed out that a culture must respond to the structure of an excess of meaning, administering it selectively for its adaptation, in view of the penetration of new means of communication, which makes Studies about the next society an indirect interpellation, a an uncomfortable question for us, for the diagnosis of our contemporaneity in view of the importance ...read more
