Institute of Art and Ideas – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:12:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Justice Beyond Privacy https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/09/justice-beyond-privacy Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:49:53 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=12319 As the old social bonds unravel, philosopher and member of the Lifeboat Foundation’s advisory board Professor Steve Fuller asks: can we balance free expression against security?

justice

Justice has been always about modes of interconnectivity. Retributive justice – ‘eye for an eye’ stuff – recalls an age when kinship was how we related to each other. In the modern era, courtesy of the nation-state, bonds have been forged in terms of common laws, common language, common education, common roads, etc. The internet, understood as a global information and communication infrastructure, is both enhancing and replacing these bonds, resulting in new senses of what counts as ‘mine’, ‘yours’, ‘theirs’ and ‘ours’ – the building blocks of a just society…

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