In an ongoing debate between International Political Economy (IPE) and International Political Sociology (IPS), the question of technology provides an important entry point. For a number of decades, oil posed both security and economic issues. Today, we find ourselves at a point where information is about to replace oil as the most valuable resource. Whereas dominant (liberal) accounts of current technological transformations insist on the democratising potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), both IPE and IPS scholarships can contribute to critically analyse power relations in the digital age. First, they both study the role of elites in contemporary capitalism. The study of elites contradicts the argument that the Internet makes communication and the exchange of information more horizontal and stresses the dominant position of some actors in the digital age. Second, both traditions explore the role of imaginaries as social production of intersubjective meanings with material supports that make sense for everyday actors out of complex economic and technological realities. A robust dialogue between IPS and IPE based notably on these two concepts allow for a critical perspective on the digital age that problematises technology both in material and discursive terms instead of taking it for granted; and uncovers power asymmetries in technological evolutions.

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精英与社会技术想象：IPE-IPS 对话对数字时代全球权力关系分析的贡献

在国际政治经济学 (IPE) 和国际政治社会学 (IPS) 之间正在进行的辩论中，技术问题提供了一个重要的切入点。几十年来，石油带来了安全和经济问题。今天，我们发现自己正处于信息即将取代石油成为最宝贵资源的地步。尽管当前技术变革的主流（自由主义）观点坚持信息和通信技术 (ICT) 的民主化潜力，但 IPE 和 IPS 奖学金都有助于批判性地分析数字时代的权力关系。首先，他们都研究了精英在当代资本主义中的作用。对精英的研究与互联网使交流和信息交换更加横向的论点相矛盾，并强调了一些参与者在数字时代的主导地位。其次，两种传统都探索了想象作为具有物质支持的主体间意义的社会生产的作用，这些物质支持对复杂经济和技术现实中的日常行为者有意义。IPS 和 IPE 之间基于这两个概念的有力对话允许对数字时代提出批判性观点，即在物质和话语方面对技术进行问题化，而不是将其视为理所当然；并揭示技术演进中的权力不对称。这两种传统都探索了想象作为主体间意义的社会生产的作用，这些意义具有物质支持，对复杂的经济和技术现实中的日常行动者有意义。IPS 和 IPE 之间基于这两个概念的有力对话允许对数字时代提出批判性观点，即在物质和话语方面对技术进行问题化，而不是将其视为理所当然；并揭示技术演进中的权力不对称。两种传统都探索了想象作为主体间意义的社会生产的作用，并具有物质支持，这些物质支持对于复杂的经济和技术现实中的日常行为者来说是有意义的。IPS 和 IPE 之间基于这两个概念的有力对话允许对数字时代提出批判性观点，即在物质和话语方面对技术进行问题化，而不是将其视为理所当然；并揭示技术演进中的权力不对称。