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Manuel Castells : the theory of the network society / Felix Stalder.

By: Series: Key contemporary thinkersPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2006.Description: x, 255 p. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745632773
  • 0745632777
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM851 .S73 2006
Contents:
1: Transformation of baselines -- Neo-Marxism and the renewal of urban sociology -- Technology and social change -- Informationalism -- Epistemology -- The politics of research -- 2: Production -- Postindustrialism -- The economic crisis of the 1970s -- Internationalization of the economy -- Global financial markets -- The network enterprise -- Individualization of labor -- Informational capitalism: critical issues -- 3: Experience -- Social movements as subjects of history -- Social movements beyond the local -- Social movements and the creation of identity -- Two case studies -- Social movements and the culture of real virtuality -- 4: The network state and informational politics -- The theory of the state -- The crisis of the nation-state -- Informational politics -- The reaffirmation of the state -- The rise of the network state? -- Power and networks -- 5: Flows and places -- Castells's theory of space -- The space of flows -- The time of flows -- Cities in the space of flows -- 6: The logic of networks -- What is a network? -- Informational networks -- The network logic -- Preeminence of morphology over action.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-251) and index.

1: Transformation of baselines --
Neo-Marxism and the renewal of urban sociology --
Technology and social change --
Informationalism --
Epistemology --
The politics of research --
2: Production --
Postindustrialism --
The economic crisis of the 1970s --
Internationalization of the economy --
Global financial markets --
The network enterprise --
Individualization of labor --
Informational capitalism: critical issues --
3: Experience --
Social movements as subjects of history --
Social movements beyond the local --
Social movements and the creation of identity --
Two case studies --
Social movements and the culture of real virtuality --
4: The network state and informational politics --
The theory of the state --
The crisis of the nation-state --
Informational politics --
The reaffirmation of the state --
The rise of the network state? --
Power and networks --
5: Flows and places --
Castells's theory of space --
The space of flows --
The time of flows --
Cities in the space of flows --
6: The logic of networks --
What is a network? --
Informational networks --
The network logic --
Preeminence of morphology over action.

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