2006, 13), or as Raymond Williams puts it, into the “structure of feelings” (Williams 1978). This type of “natural” knowledge is the backbone of political culture and political legitimacy. As Lyn Hunt argues, “The legitimacy of political authority depends on its resonance with more global, even cosmic cultural presuppositions, for political life is ‘enfolded in general conceptions of how reality is put together” (Hunt 1984, 87). “The digital society,” “the network society,” and so forth are “master fictions” (Geertz 1977) that bring together these various presuppositions and endow them with shared meaning (Ram 2006, 13). The purpose of this book is to analyze the digital discourse as this kind of knowledge and show the usually invisible threads that connect it to politics and power.
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