The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel CastellsSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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I'm reading this for a class assignment. A lot of it is a useful historical review of world economic and technological trends and events from the 70s to the 90s, charting the rise of "network enterprises" as the key units of the new global economy. His main points are on the consequences of these changes, for example that the processes of innovation are marginalizing large sections of the global population, and that there is a growing antithesis between the Net and the Self leading to...more
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Read in August, 2008
Working in the vein of David Harvey, Castells manages to put together a wise, all-encompassing analysis, linking the "network" processes of space, time, and capital. Despite its broad scope, Castells manages to avoid heavy generalization, instead showing us how any oddities and exceptions are firmly ingrained in the network. Good for anyone interested in the state of modern society.
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On indefinite but impermanent hiatus. Exceedingly interesting but very dry and academic. Trends in capital and labor and trade, etc, over the past few decades. Crazy shit when you look at it this carefully. I started it at the end of a long, dense nonfiction run and just hit a wall.
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