Le cybermunicipalisme devant l’espace-monde

Abstract

Cybermunicipalism in front of world-space

American scholar George Landow saw in hypertext a great potential for decolonization of knowledge. However, the latter was quickly subjected to new control dynamics that were previously unsuspected. At the same time, its content has also been "commodified" by hegemonic forces. (George Landow 2006) Our question is: to what extent could we free hypertext from the constraints imposed by Capital? Nico Carpentier underlines the importance of cities as an interface in the face of globalization, thanks to community hypermedia, in what he calls "translocalism". What he is proposing is, in our opinion, constitutes cybermunicipalism. (Nico Carpentier, p. 3) In fact, we would like to address this possibility in the present communication. From my perspective as a translator, I would like to address the issue by mobilizing, among other things, the concepts of "mechanized reproduction" by Walter Benjamin (1939) and "temporary autonomous zones" by Hakim Bey (1985), in order to establish certain avenues of meditation to abolish, in the twinkling of an eye, the dichotomy between global and local.