TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonlinear causality in Castells's network society : disorder as problem and opportunity under globalization
AU - Hodge, Bob
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this article I consider Castellss network society trilogy as a key site for examining claims that globalization today is driven by a new paradigm, in which networks and digital technologies play a decisive role in producing revolutionary new forms of economics, politics, culture and society. To theorize this change I draw on a rich, explicit account of non-linear causal processes found in far-from-equilibrium cybernetics, foregrounding the all-pervasive, constitutive phenomenon of disorder, coming from below as well as above through a multiplicity of networks, old and new, digital and non-digital.
AB - In this article I consider Castellss network society trilogy as a key site for examining claims that globalization today is driven by a new paradigm, in which networks and digital technologies play a decisive role in producing revolutionary new forms of economics, politics, culture and society. To theorize this change I draw on a rich, explicit account of non-linear causal processes found in far-from-equilibrium cybernetics, foregrounding the all-pervasive, constitutive phenomenon of disorder, coming from below as well as above through a multiplicity of networks, old and new, digital and non-digital.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/529383
U2 - 10.1111/glob.12025
DO - 10.1111/glob.12025
M3 - Article
SN - 1470-2266
VL - 13
SP - 330
EP - 344
JO - Global Networks
JF - Global Networks
IS - 3
ER -