Is there anything that quantum physics and the universe that can teach us about cyberspace? How we relate to the unseen that shape our lives? Can we control cyberspace or will it control us? Or are all of these questions irrelevant or just completely irrelevant?
In the world of computer science, cyberspace is a unique term because unlike most computer terms, it does not have a standard, objective definition. This section introduces cyberspace and the ongoing difficulties of defining it. For some it is a conceptual individual space, and for others, cyberspace is a product of social interaction.[1. Strate, Lance. [...]
War is ancient; cyberwar is 24|7. Within that disconnect of history is the absolute of disruption, the moment where disarmed subjects of power meet objects of their domination.
Are the current theories of international relations (IR) underdeveloped of addressing the challenges of theorizing and defining cyberwar? The social, cultural and political transformations caused by the emergence of the Internet and developments in information technologies have allowed the politics of physicalspace to be vectored through cyberspace. Cyberspace levels the playing field. by allowing any [...]
Have you ever taken a close look at who comments on various status updates of yours? It’s almost an archival snapshot of you development over time. If you haven’t taken a look, then either you say nothing of any significance to your friends and need to re-evaluate your social network or you’re a cybernerd like [...]
In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace. David G. Post. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 264 pp. $27.95 hbk. We are bearing witness to the beginning of a centuries-long conversation about Cyberspace, and this book initiates that dialogue by profoundly weaving Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia into [...]
Who signs, and with what so-called proper name, the declarative act which founds an institution? The Founding of societies, identities, entire nations, and of states are temporal and spatial. The Founding is propelled via narratives, symbols, media, and with the power of myth. These stories or tales take two forms: “in the beginning” or “once [...]
The cosmos of cyberspace is “expanding inside the ever more powerful computers proliferating around the world. Cyberspace is the perfection of the electronic nothingness that awaits to be filled with representations of the world as a massive extension of the human consciousness that seeks to fill its own nothingness” (Vacker 2009)—crashing into vanishing points. Class [...]
Can we map the trajectory of the media industry by looking at Feudal Europe and the Peace of Westphalia? OR What can the trajectory of the media industry tell us about the future of the state in international relations?
