THE METAPHOR OF THE NETWORK AND ITS CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

Abstract

The network has become a dominant form of contemporary thinking, the constitutive metaphor being reinvented during the explosion of reticular techniques - the Internet and planetary telecommunications networks. It seems to draw the invisible infrastructure of contemporary society. The figure of the network tends to define the ways of thinking, being ubiquitous in all disciplines, from biology to sociology, from law to computer science, etc., because the hidden structure of the complexity of today's society is the network that dominates and shapes it.