ABSTRACT
A network is not a technological ready-to-hand object in the same way a hammer, a telephone or a camera is. Geert Lovink claims in Networks Without Cause
that networks have ‘a specific ambiguity’, as they ‘at once talk about the social as well as the machinic. [. . .] Networks integrate sociality with software, interfaces, and routers’ (2011, 73). A network system evades human subjectivity as it partly functions as a consequence of data and information provided by participants and users. This system is not non-living, but organic in the sense that it ‘acts, senses results, compares to its goal’ (Ekeus 2010, 9) and is characterised by continuous and natural development through feedback loops.
