Implosion, not violent destruction, is the mode of resistance proper to networked societies

Evidence

Subversion, violent destruction is what corresponds to a mode of production. To a universe of networks, of combinatory theory, and of flow correspond reversal and implosion. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 240

Categorization

• XREF: A clean Marxist-homology move (mode of production determines mode of subversion) that connects to Jameson’s culture-economics mapping, but Baudrillard pushes the dialectical opposite: to the old order, explosion; to the society of flows, implosion. — connects to: War metaphors misfit a decentralized network enemy that no leader’s death can destroy; Implosive violence of assembled masses differs fundamentally from explosive violence — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 230; Military strikes against decentralized networks relocate threats rather than eliminate them — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2306 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Implosive violence of assembled masses differs fundamentally from explosive violence #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 230
• Military strikes against decentralized networks relocate threats rather than eliminate them #corroborates (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2306
• War metaphors misfit a decentralized network enemy that no leader’s death can destroy #qualifies (0.80)
• Disciplinary power is a network function, not a possessed property #corroborates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 273