Pierre Musso and the Network Society

1. Introduction: Towards a Critical Philosophy of Networks – Reflections on the Perspective of Pierre Musso
José Luís Garcia

2. Network Ideology: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet
Pierre Musso

3. Network, Utopia and Fetishism
Filipa Subtil, Pedro Xavier Mendonça

4. Retiology as Ideological Determinism in the Media: A Political Economy Perspective
David Fernández-Quijada

5. History, Philosophy, and Actuality of the Utopian View of Technology: On Pierre Musso’s Critique of Network Ideology
Steven Dorrestijn

6. From the Critique of the Network Symbolic Form to the Ideology of Innovation: An Appraisal of Pierre Musso’s Work on the Current World Situation of Technology
Francisco Rüdiger

7. Paradise, Panopticon, or Laboratory? A Tale of the Internet in China
Dazhou Wang, Kaixi Wang

8. The Rise of Pirates: Political Identities and Technological Subjectivities in a Network Society
Rodrigo Saturnino

9. Final Note: Examining the Network Concept
Pierre Musso

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Media Sociology, Innovation/Technology Management, R & D/Technology Policy