Mastering matter is now less pressing than building information networks

Evidence

The major challenge for the advanced poles of humanity in the coming decades is no longer that of mastering matter—such mastery is already assured. The challenge is rather that of constructing a network of links allowing information and orgaization to move forward together. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 680

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Jameson’s reading of postmodernism as a shift from industrial production toward information and late-capitalist networks. — connects to: Digital immediacy obscures the material extraction beneath it — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 331; Power circulates through networks rather than being possessed by rulers — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 47; Content transmission no longer defines schooling once information is instantly accessible — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 282 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Digital immediacy obscures the material extraction beneath it #expands (0.78) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 331
• Power circulates through networks rather than being possessed by rulers #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 47