The idea that individuals or states can exercise power autonomously is the idea of sovereignty. It may be a fatally flawed ideal, yet rightly or wrongly the pursuit of the ideal of sovereignty has fueled much of the pursuit of the technology. Ironically, this sometimes seems to produce societies that sacrifice a degree of freedom to what we could call “technosocial” forms of control. The technology of globalization involve a series of flexible but specific control. These are designed to impose non localised forms of order on specific locations in the world and when needed.
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