Pierre Musso and the Network Society: From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet

1. Introduction: critical philosophy of networks - reflections on the perspective of Pierre Musso (José Luís Garcia).- 2. Network ideology: from Saint-Simonianism to the internet (Pierre Musso).- 3. Network, utopia and fetishism (Filipa Subtil).- 4. Retiology as ideological determinism in the media: a political economy perspective (David Fernández-Quijada).- 5. History, philosophy, and actuality of the utopian view of technology: on Pierre Musso's critique of network ideology (Steven Dorrestijn).- 6. From the critique of the network symbolic form to the ideology of innovation: an appraisal of Pierre Musso's work on the current world situation of technology (Francisco Rüdiger).- 7. Paradise, panopticon, or laboratory? A tale of the internet in China (Dazhou Wang).- 8. The rise of pirates: political identities and technological subjectivities in a network society (Rodrigo Saturnino).- 9. Final note: examining the network concept (Pierre Musso).