The Translegality of Digital Nonspace Digital Counter-Power and Its Representation

The transnational is a useful analytic term for assessing the continued rapid advancement of computer technology, and specifically the Internet, because it maintains that conceptions of the nation remain important for understanding even the most global of entities or events. Ulrich Beck echoes Louis...

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Published inTransnationalism, Activism, Art p. 91
Main Author NICK MORWOOD
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada University of Toronto Press 31.12.2012
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Abstract spaces
Anomie
Applied mathematics
Applied sciences
Applied statistics
Behavioral sciences
Communication systems
Communications technology
Computer engineering
Computer law
Computer science
Computer software
Countries
Digital communication systems
Dimensional analysis
Dimensionality
Domain name system
Government
Human geography
Human societies
Internet
Law
Legal entities
Legal status
Mathematics
Nation states
Political geography
Political science
Search engines
Social dynamics
Social norms
Social sciences
Sociology
Software applications
Sovereignty
Statistical physics
Statistics
Technology
Websites
World Wide Web
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Summary:The transnational is a useful analytic term for assessing the continued rapid advancement of computer technology, and specifically the Internet, because it maintains that conceptions of the nation remain important for understanding even the most global of entities or events. Ulrich Beck echoes Louisa Schein’s aim of ‘imagining nation-state and transnational as interlocked, enmeshed, mutually constituting,’¹ a methodology that emphasizes the continued role of the national in even conceiving of that which is beyond or in addition to its borders. Put another way, if the nation-state has a limit-concept, the transnational is not it. Rather, each concept informs and crosses
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