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Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia / Infocracy: Digitali zation and the Crisis of Democracy

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Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia / Infocracy: Digitali zation and the Crisis of Democracy
Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia / Infocracy: Digitali zation and the Crisis of Democracy

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La digitalización avanza inexorablemente. Aturdidos por el frenesí de la comunicación y la información, nos sentimos impotentes ante el tsunami de datos que despliega fuerzas destructivas y deformantes. Hoy la digitalización también afecta a la esfera política y provoca graves trastornos en el proceso democrático. Las campañas electorales son guerras de información que se libran con todos los medios técnicos y psicológicos imaginables. Los bots difunden noticias falsas y discursos de odio e influyen en la formación de la opinión pública. Los ejércitos de troles intervienen en las campañas y apuntalan la desinformación. Las teorías de la conspiración y la propaganda dominan el debate político. Mediante la psicometría y la psicopolítica digital, se intenta influir en el comportamiento electoral y evitar las decisiones conscientes. Byung-Chul Han describe la crisis de la democracia y la atribuye al cambio estructural de la esfera pública en el mundo digital. Y da nombre a este fenómeno: infocracia. In this new book, Byung-Chul Han argues that infocracy is the new form of rule characteristic of contemporary information capitalism. Whereas the disciplinary regime of industrial capitalism worked with compulsion and repression, this new information regime exploits freedom instead of repressing it.  Surveillance and punishment give way to motivation and optimization: we imagine that we are free, but in reality our entire lives are recorded so that our behaviour might be psychopolitically controlled.  Under the neoliberal information regime, mechanisms of power function not because people are aware of the fact of constant surveillance but because they perceive themselves to be free. This trenchant critique of politics in the information age will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences and to anyone concerned about the fate of politics in our time.

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