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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
The Voter Power Index
Posted in politics, tagged politics, UK election, voter power index on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to this, living in North-West Bristol my vote is worth just 0.521 of a vote. More shocking than that though, is the fact that this is apparently over twice the average amount of voting power of most UK citizens (the average is 0.253). At first glance this is really useful way of illustrating the [...]
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the edge of Chaos – Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh
Posted in activism, book review, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged Chesters, complexity, ecology, globalization, media, politics, protest, Welsh, WTO on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This book, published by Routledge in 2006, is a recent attempt at a sociological analysis of the alternative globalization movement (AGM) using a theoretical framework based on an almagamation of the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Hardt and Negri and Gregory Bateson, with complexity theory via D&G deployed to provide qualitative analysis of events such [...]
