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Of War and Peace: A European Technological Tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2017

Esteve Sanz
Esteve Sanz*
Affiliation:
Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article studies the formation of the European Union as a technological discourse. It traces the technological narrative from the origins of the Community until the current debates around the internet and the future of the Union. In search of a renewed telos, the European rhetoric of an open internet could express the commitment of the EU to re-link its popular legitimacy away from liberal abstractions and closer to the concrete, subjective experience of individuals, actively sharing a peaceful, dense and diverse democratic life.

Type
In Honour of Erol Gelenbe
Information
European Review , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 351 - 364
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2017 

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