ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of the notion of technopolitics, and addresses its meaning in the context of contemporary Spain. It examines the technopolitical imaginary and explores its roots, its characteristics, its implications, and its transformations. In technopolitical terms, every political act is inextricably linked to technology, which unfolds as a space of intervention and as a landscape of possibilities, as Feenberg and others have illustrated. Spanish technopolitics heavily relies on the principles of hacker ethics that denote the production of knowledge and practical innovations within hacker communities through anonymous collective reflection and action. The myth of the internet lies firmly at the core of the technopolitical imaginary, with the horizontal, decentralised, and interactive nature of the Net functioning as an inspiration for the creation of new, radical democratic models in contrast to representative democracy, associated with old, traditional mainstream media.
