<a href="http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/category/networks-and-rhizomes/">http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/category/networks-and-rhizomes/</a><h2>Dear Mayo,</h2><br>if you have any comments on this, I'd like to publish them on the p2p blog,<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><h2><br></h2><h2><a href="http://yannickrumpala.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/tracing-and-reconfiguring-networks-to-build-a-political-alternative/" rel="bookmark" title="Lire Tracing and reconfiguring networks to build a
political alternative">Tracing and reconfiguring networks to build a
political alternative</a></h2>
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<span class="date_day">21</span>
<span class="date_month">10</span>
<span class="date_year">2009</span>
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<p>Just published:</p>
<p>“Knowledge and praxis of networks as a political project”</p>
<p>Published in: <em><strong>Twenty-First Century Society</strong></em>,
Volume 4, Issue 3, November 2009, pages 277-295. </p>
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Modern-day society is increasingly
described as an extensive web of networks, but as such, it is often
perceived and experienced as elusive. In light of this paralysing
description, this paper aims to highlight the potentially political
dimension of network analysis, namely as defined in the social sciences,
and of the notion of networks itself. It will be shown that a political
project could, in this case, be built on the desire to know this
reticular world better, but also to be able to act appropriately towards
it. Three steps are proposed to specify how such a political project
could be built. The first step aims at deploying knowledge of networks
and emphasises the usefulness of a procedure to trace them. The second
step shows the possibilities that this knowledge offers, particularly in
allowing one to find one’s bearings in a world which is frequently
described as veering towards an increasing complexity, and by helping to
rebuild the selection criteria for connections in this world, thanks to
an additional degree of reflexivity. The third step draws on these
points to extend them and bring out potentialities with regards to the
intervention capacities in network configurations.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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