To sum up, the digital discourse’s network cosmology is technologistic. By reifying technology, by suggesting a direct and nondialectic transfer between technological forms and social forms in which technology determines the shape of society, by naturalizing information technology and suggesting that it is akin to the forces of nature, by insisting that technological advance is human progress and that it is therefore benevolent, and, finally, by suggesting network technology to be one with history—a motor of change and an end in and of itself—and implying the inevitability of its impact and the futility of any human and social intervention in its affairs, this theory of technology depoliticizes and neutralizes (i.e., technologizes) what are essentially socially determined and politically contested power relations.
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