通信基础设施、技术解决方案主义与国际法律想象

IF 0.8 Q2 LAW

LAW AND CRITIQUE Pub Date : 2023-10-21 DOI:10.1007/s10978-023-09362-5

Daniel Joyce

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摘要

摘要本文考虑了通信基础设施在国际法律想象中所起的作用。它与当代关于企业数字平台的力量及其信息资本主义模式的辩论有关。采用国际法律历史视角，以便将国际法当前的基础设施转向置于背景下，并将当前关于大型科技公司的辩论与其前身联系起来。国际法律参与通信基础设施发展的历史揭示了一种反复出现的模式，即寻求技术基础设施来解决全球问题。这可以增强私人行为者的能力，并导致目前缺乏对通信进行有意义的国际法律监管。当代对基础设施的兴趣，以及它在培育大型科技公司在全球通信领域的私人力量方面的影响，在很多方面都是一种回归。但是，它也可以考虑到在国际联盟时代和冷战时期的关键时刻出现的国际法的其他设想。将当前的辩论与国际法律历史上的早期时刻联系起来，可以帮助突出和反对国际法律想象中技术解决主义的持续模式。

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Communications Infrastructure, Technological Solutionism and the International Legal Imagination

Abstract This article considers the role played by communications infrastructure within the international legal imagination. It engages with contemporary debates regarding the power of corporate digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. An international legal historical perspective is adopted in order to contextualise international law’s present infrastructural turn and connect current debates over big tech with their precursors. The history of international legal engagement with the development of communications infrastructure reveals a recurring pattern of looking to technological infrastructure for solutions to global problems. This can act to empower private actors and contribute to an ongoing absence of meaningful international legal regulation of communications. The contemporary interest in infrastructure, and its implications in terms of fostering the private power of big tech over global communications, is in many ways a return. But it could also take account of alternative visions for international law which were present at key moments during the League of Nations era and the Cold War. Connecting current debates with those earlier moments in international legal history can help to highlight and counter continuing patterns of technological solutionism within the international legal imagination.

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