A monocultura informática

Abstract

This article is dedicated to a preliminary exploration about the tension between the apparent diversity of contemporary cultural practices and the production conditions uniformity, expressed in a notion called "Informatics Monoculture". The problem is: given that the standardization (in the production procedures, but also in the cultural practices), is always acapitalism need, the plurality and the polyphony found in the web could be seen as a counter-hegemonic force? The developed idea is that the fragmented social scene runs upon a unitary logic (the "informatics logic"), determined by the ascending of the compi.Iter to the role of privileged intermediary in the culture creation and transmission. So, the diversity is, in fact, reducible to the uniformity. The proliferation of practices occurs over a basic standardization: the necessity of digital technologies, with their protocols, interdictions and hierarchy.