The Pastoral Power of Technology. Rethinking Alienation in Digital Culture

The purpose of this paper is to bring Foucault’s elaboration on ‘the pastoral modalities of power’ into play in order to rethink alienation in digital culture. Pastoral power is not displacing other conceptions of power, but provides another level of analysis involved in the forging of reasonable re...

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Main Authors: Katarina Giritli Nygren, Katarina L Gidlund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group 2012-05-01
Series:tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
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Online Access:https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/388