Space : Irrealis objects and their role in a new political economy
Contribuinte(s) |
Van Dijk , Teun |
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2007
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Resumo |
In this paper, I show how new spaces are being prefigured for colonisation in the language of contemporary technology policy. Drawing on a corpus of 1.3 million words collected from technology policy centres throughout the world, I show the role of policy language in creating the foundations of an emergent form of political economy. The analysis is informed by principles from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and classical political economy. It foregrounds a functional aspect of language called process metaphor to show how aspects of human activity are prefigured for mass commodification by the manipulation of irrealis spaces. I also show how the fundamental element of any new political economy, the property element, is being largely ignored. The potential creation of a global space as concrete as landed property – electromagnetic spectrum – has significant ramifications for the future of social relations in any global “knowledge economy”. |
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Sage Publications |
Relação |
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/43636/1/Space_irrealis_objects_and_their_role_pgo.pdf DOI:10.1177/0957926501012006003 Graham, Philip W. (2007) Space : Irrealis objects and their role in a new political economy. Discourse and Society, 12(6), pp. 761-788. |
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Copyright 2007 Sage Publications |
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Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation |
Palavras-Chave | #169900 OTHER STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY #irrealis objects |
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Journal Article |