Sublime

Manuel Castells, starting with The Rise of the Network Society.

However, the construction of meaning in people’s minds is a more decisive and more stable source of power.

This is why the fundamental power struggle is the battle for the construction of meaning in the minds of the people.

Thus, my purpose is more limited: to suggest some hypotheses, grounded on observation, on the nature and perspectives of networked social movements, with the hope of identifying the new paths of social change in our time, and to stimulate a debate on the practical (and ultimately political) implications of these hypotheses. This analysis is based

What could be the common thread that united in people’s minds their experiences of revolt in spite of the vastly diverse cultural, economic and institutional contexts? In a nutshell: their feeling of empowerment.

Torturing bodies is less effective than shaping minds.

No one expected it. In a world darkened by economic distress, political cynicism, cultural emptiness and personal hopelessness, it just happened.

Digital hyperconnectivity — the condition in which nearly everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time — has colonized the self, recast social interactions, reorganized the public sphere, revolutionized economic life and converted the whole of human culture into an unending stream of digital con