Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-303).
Contents:
Human language -- Origins of law -- Orality vs. literacy -- The new economy -- The new law beyond natural law : constitution, freedom, pluralism, social security -- The immaterial society (the wordless society) -- Digital common sense (... and digital type) -- Digital new deal.
Summary:
"Digital New Deal analyses the origins of law and its relationship to language and economics and identifies 12 symptoms that point to an authoritarian involution of our democracies. It refuses to indulge in pro-forma techno-optimism. Neither does it pessimistically predict inescapable doom. A bright future is still possible, if we correctly understand the digital equivalents of categories such as identity, persona, home, document, signature, freedom and the close relationship between our fundamental rights and their digital equivalents -- Back cover.
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