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188° Mercoledì di Nexa – Technology Regulation and the Challenge of Infrastructural Power

Julie cohen

Georgetown Law

Centro Nexa su Internet & Società
Politecnico di Torino, via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1st floor)

The emergence of networked digital technologies has catalyzed a transformation in political economy, organized around networked, programmable, platformized digital infrastructures and supply chains.

Such infrastructures represent a novel mode of power that has presented thorny conceptual and practical challenges for political regimes of all persuasions. In part, this is because networked digital infrastructures are privately controlled and operate at very large scales, but even if such environments were to be publicly built and operated, their operations would resist conventional modes of political and bureaucratic control and accountability.

Understanding infrastructural power is a necessary first step to developing more effective governance institutions.

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Julie E. Cohen

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