Mapping world communication : war, progress, culture

Part 1 War: the emergence of technical networks; the age of multitudes; the invisible management of the great society; the shock of ideologies; the school of ruse. Part 2 Progress: from progress to communication - conceptual metamorphoses; the revolution of rising expectations; the international regulation of information flows: two colliding views. Part 3 Culture: the state in its ordinary dimension; the ascendancy of geo-economy: the quest for global culture; mediations and hybridizations: the revenge of the cultures; conclusion - the enigma.