Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization (Experimental Futures)
Although activists in rural and urban society utilize Web platforms for groups to self-organize and twitter for flash mobilization, the ENGOs operate largely within the scope of state policies, and this explains their ability to survive and even flourish.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Bottom line: Network proximity is now on par with physical geography, and basic geopolitical assumptions about citizenship, migration, power projection, and the use of force need to be rethought for the digital world.
Parag Khanna, Balaji S. Srinivasan • Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World
Complexity theory and ‘big history’, particularly notions of pulsating global networks of exchange, allow us to grasp changes through three logics: of capital, of political systems, and of culture, by which I refer to the formation of subjectivity and social actions.