Square and tower. Networks and power from Masons to Facebook
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The tower is a visual symbol of any hierarchy: those who below support those above them and obey them. And so to the very “upper floors”. The area is an understandable image of the network, the relationship in which is absolutely opposite to what we can observe in the hierarchies. This is a plane, not a vertical. Hierarchical relations have always aroused primary interest among historians: the structure of states, the genealogical tree of the monarchs, a lot of archival documents. And on the contrary, the “network” often does not leave traces in history, but sometimes they have no less, and sometimes more influence, radically changing its course. The famous British historian Nial Fergusson shows how the “tower” and “square” coexisted throughout human history and what changes two “network eras” made: the first, which came after the appearance of a printing press in Europe, and the second - which began in the 1970s , from the technological revolution in Silicon Valley
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-109384-6
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