The Heterotopia of Facebook

[Philosophy Now]

Robin Rymarczuk is Michel Foucault’s ‘friend’.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/107/Th ... f_Facebook

[HexHammer]

The usual extremely low quality babble that the magazine brings.

It's overly talkative, uses too many fancy expressions and totally unrelated buff words like "dystopia" which is shoehorned into the article.

The proofreader should go sweep the street or clean toilets, which seemingly is a far better occupation that accepting this garbage into the magazine.

Thanks for wasting our time as usual!

[spike]

What would be the opposite to heterotopia, hegemonic?

If that is the case I am more hegemonic about the meaning of social networks like Facebook. Here is an example what I think is going on with social networking, a study I call The Sociology of Networking:

Social networking, also known as exchange networking, is a phenomenon that chiefly grew and developed in the West. It came about as politics and business activity between individuals grew and expanded. It grew out of people's cumulative experience and the need to cooperate. It grew as a vehicle of communication and the exchange of data and ideas, a back-and-forth. It grew as a deliberative feedback system in business and politics, as a way of seeking improvement and solutions to problems. It grew as a mechanism of developing social capital and a means of social support. The more Western societies engaged themselves in politics and business, the larger and stronger exchange networks grew. They grew exponentially, feeding on themselves as a means of facilitating the process. By no means have social networks been the exclusivity of the West. Peoples around the world have always engaged themselves in such a manner in trade and commerce. But it is in the West where social networks differed and became all inclusive, secular and pluralistic, crossing multiple cultural differences and transcending social barriers. In the New World it became the glue that bonded the diverse people who came together from all over the world. Social/exchange networks build trust and respect amongst its participants. Without these networks and their cross-breeding it would be impossible to conduct the activities that bind and connect us today. They’ve helped develop our civility and the civil traditions that govern us today.

Facebook and Twitter are extensions of the earlier exchange networks people built doing everyday business and politics. Without the development of those earlier systems the social medias of today wouldn’t exist. They are a further step in the continuation of getting people talking to each other and developing commonalities. People having things in common is a major step to world security and peace. It creates alliances. And it is due to networking on a grand scale, in politics and business, that Western nations no longer go to war with each other even though there may still be social and cultural divides. Networking creates a hub and a web of connections between people that transcends cultural and social divides. Two of the biggest networks we rely on today came to be after WWII, The United Nations and The European Union, as a means of cooperation in order to prevent future wars. This is something that the West has been trying to impart on the rest of the world, that if you build network capabilities and keep the channels of communication open a peace and harmony will follow.