Abstract
Hegel's concept of recognition helps us understand the self-mapping behavior of online writers. Early Marx helps us understand that alienation drives us online to seek recognition. I argue that it is very difficult to overcome alienation this way because much online behavior only deepens alienation. We also learn that much online mapping is self-mapping, and that maps tend to lose their signifieds in Internet capitalism.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.23.04
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Recommended Citation
Agger, Ben
(2014)
"Hegel's Internet,"
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 23, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.23.04
Available at:
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol23/iss1/4
