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Manuel Castells, starting with The Rise of the Network Society.
Steven Johnson • Future Perfect
As Manuel Castells Oliván,2 a Spanish sociologist, has written, “Elites are cosmopolitan, people are local.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
In 2001, Castells wrote that the space of flows “links up distant locales around shared functions and meanings…while isolating and subduing the
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Extinction Internet
Geert Lovink discusses the decline of internet culture, highlighting issues like entropy and platform dominance, while emphasizing the need for alternatives, degrowth, and a collective reimagining of digital spaces for a sustainable future.
networkcultures.org
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more
Can there be a connection between online universities and the serial insurgencies which, in media noise and human blood, have rocked the Arab Middle East? I contend that there is.