A ‘redundant information society’ for the European Union?

This article addresses the relationship between new Information and Communication technology and the growth of unemployment and of redundant symbolic contents. It critically examines the strategy deployed by the EU in the 1990s and subsequent policies. This article develops a critical examination of the EU 1990ʹs strategy and subsequent policies in the converging sectors of Information, Telematics and Communication (I, T&C). In particular it analyses the policy and ideological premises that were set out in the “Action Plan for Europeʹs Way to the Information Society” (APEWIS) an AP rushedly and uncritically endorsed by the main community institutions and political actors in June 1994. The article argues that the APEWIS strategy is not sustainable in the medium and long term, just as it has been manifestly problematic so far, and that ICT and Information-in-Action cause the phenomenon of unemployment-generating-growth.