@article{DC, author = {Mario Ricciardi}, title = { The Constitution of the Digital}, journal = {DigitCult - Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures}, volume = {3}, number = {3}, year = {2018}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Is there a global society? Or a digital society? What is the role of culture and cultural development in the formation of the digital ratio? This contribution identifies two great processes in the relationship between culture and digital society. The former establishes itself as a process of liberation from an authoritarian and repressive power, identified mainly in public institutions. The goal is cultural freedom from the authority and the \"chains\" that have been built over time through the cultural domain of the alphabetic mind and the logical-sequential paradigm. This culture, historically founded on the alphabetic mind, is identified with modern human nature and with its vision of the world. The second process is a counter-revolution. At the center of this counterrevolution is the downsizing and then the cancellation of the social centrality of the producers. The modern producers (of the time of modernity) are the dialectical and conflictual personification of industrial capitalists (the bosses, the entrepreneurs) with the salaried workers (the workers, the unemployed and eventually the citizens). The primary objective was a reversal from the utopia of equality (present in the critique to logocentrism and the affirmation of the global parity of every point of the network) to the reality of a fierce domain of inequality on a global scale.}, issn = {2531-5994}, pages = {41--60}, doi = {10.4399/97888255208975}, url = {https://digitcult.lim.di.unimi.it/index.php/dc/article/view/99} }