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<p>The rapid uptake of artificial intelligence worldwide is ushering a shift from apps and the web to the language model as the primary interface of digital life. This is bringing about a deeper transformation that has been underexplored in the burgeoning literature on the socio-economic impact of generative AI — a shift from a ‘network society’ to one of delegated automation; a move from a political economy of flows and collaboration, of platform dominance and ordinality, to one that prizes powers of orchestration and computation. This Brief Communication traces the outlines of this shift by drawing a contrast with earlier macro-societal assessments of earlier stages of digital technology in the work of Manuel Castells, Yochai Benkler, Nick Srnicek, and Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy. The contrast elucidates an unfolding turn from a preoccupation with platform hegemony to concentrations of power over the AI stack, and its implications for autonomy, democracy, and social order.</p>

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The Emerging Post-Network Society and the Language Model as Social Form

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    2026年6月3日

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  • Robert Diab

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The rapid uptake of artificial intelligence worldwide is ushering a shift from apps and the web to the language model as the primary interface of digital life. This is bringing about a deeper transformation that has been underexplored in the burgeoning literature on the socio-economic impact of generative AI — a shift from a ‘network society’ to one of delegated automation; a move from a political economy of flows and collaboration, of platform dominance and ordinality, to one that prizes powers of orchestration and computation. This Brief Communication traces the outlines of this shift by drawing a contrast with earlier macro-societal assessments of earlier stages of digital technology in the work of Manuel Castells, Yochai Benkler, Nick Srnicek, and Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy. The contrast elucidates an unfolding turn from a preoccupation with platform hegemony to concentrations of power over the AI stack, and its implications for autonomy, democracy, and social order.