TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stalder,Felix
TI  - Manuel Castells: the theory of the network society 
SN  - 9780745632773
AV  - HM851 .S73 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - Polity
KW  - Castells, Manuel,
KW  - Sociology
N1  - 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
ER  -