Thesis title: L'antagonismo digitale. Conflitto politico e democrazia nella post-modernità.
The research explores the specific category of "digital antagonism," taking postmodern democracy as its analytical framework.
The topic is explored by examining the relationship between digital technology and society, drawing on key insights from hacker phenomenology and social movements. The paper discusses the main antagonistic hacker collectives, their techniques of struggle, as well as the social structure and potential political identities.
The questions addressed are numerous and begin with the phenomenon's place within the broad repertoire of social struggle techniques. Political hacking's distinctiveness lies in its avant-garde projection into the cybernetic dimension, as well as in its potential expansionary capabilities for the democratic discursive construction of the public sphere.
“Digital antagonism” investigates the hypothesis of sabotage of the artificial logos by attributing the outcomes to the public sphere and to the human logos. This definition, in the context of democratic societies, qualifies it as a peculiar critical instance of the anti-systemic narrative, which has changed in the post-modern scenario in light of the affirmation of the informational paradigm.