Jan-Hendrik Passoth - Digital Infrastructure, State Power and Power beyond the State

Digital Infrastructure State Power and Power beyond the State Lecture 3rd Summer School Viadrina Center B ORDERS IN MOTION Tue 24th 14 05 15 30 Lecturer Prof Dr Jan Hendrik Passoth European New School of Digital Studies European University Viadrina Collegium Polonicum The relationship of infrastructure and nation states has been characterized by a modern promise of stability large infrastructure projects such as roads electricity or telecommunication systems were driven by nation states at least until the 1960s This promise of stability has also from the early 20th century on characterized European infrastructure projects creating a hidden integration Misa Schot 2005 of Europe by engineering infrastructural Europeanism This modern promise has been broken many times since the 1970s by privatization and deregulation the rise of private platforms by large scale public private digital infrastructure projects The European Union on the other hand has also changed and turned into an experimen