

Author: Geyer Felix
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
ISSN: 0368-492X
Source: Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics, Vol.30, Iss.9-10, 2001-11, pp. : 1155-1178
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Abstract
The transition is described from the "mediated society" (Lachs) to the "network society" (Castells), caused by the increasingly rapid complexification of modern society. On the level of psychic systems, i.e. the individual's consciousness, the modern network society promotes new (non-Marxist and non-psychiatric) forms of powerlessness and meaningless. On the level of social systems, i.e. the system of communications in the network society, the results of this are described. The network society is only partially developed: in some areas more than others, in the economic and political more than in the cultural sphere. As an example, the present-day situation in Yugoslavia is discussed, as well as the chances for the emergence of world-wide minimum norms, both ecological and anti-genocide.
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