Communication Power is the latest book from Manuel Castells, the Spanish sociologist most famous for his trilogy of books on the Information Age, which give a theoretical overview and empirical evidence for the transition from an Industrial society to an Informational one, which Castells describes as ‘the rise of the network society.’ communication Power seeks [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Manuel Castells – Communication Power
Posted in book review, media, media activism, tagged castells, communication power, media, network, network society, politics on May 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Election Results: First Thoughts… Progressive Parties Win 53% of Votes but Less than 50% of Seats
Posted in politics, tagged Bristol, Bristol North West, Clegg, election 2010, electoral reform, hung parliament, Labour, Liberal Democrats, proportional representation, UK election on May 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I woke up this morning to find that I now have a Tory MP. Lets just say it isn’t what I was hoping for. The results for Bristol North West look like this Charlotte Leslie, Conservative 19,115 38.0% Paul Harrod, Liberal Democrat 15,841 31.5% Sam Townend, Labour 13,059 25.9% Robert Upton, UK Independence Party 1,175 [...]
Capital and Language – Christian Marazzi
Posted in book review, politics, tagged capital, capitalism, economics, language, marazzi, politics, post-fordism on May 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Christian Marazzi is one of the group of Italian Post-Fordist theorists along with Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and France Beradi. Capital and Language first published in Italian in 2002 is the first of Marazzi’s works to be published in English. The starting point of the economic analysis presented by Marazzi in this text is that [...]
