Manuel Castells Conclusion Making Sense of Conclusion

Manuel Castells “Conclusion. Making Sense of “Conclusion. Making Sense our World” of our World” In: Castells, Manuel. The in: Manuel Castells. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture

Genesis of a New World

Capitalism is transformed. Redefinition of relationships We can see that in steps of appropriation: 1. holders of property the information 2. managerial class technology generic production 3. labor revolution self-programmable the economic crisis of both capitalism & statism • social inequality & polarization • social exclusion • separation between market logic & human experience power the blooming of cultural social movements experience Industrial era (less innovation & flexibility) • crisis of nation-state • crisis of political democracy • multilateralisation of power institutions, their transformation in bargaining agencies Power becomes immaterial and inscribed in the cultural codes Transformation of time & space • Clock time logic of industrial era • Technology compress time to random instants • Superseding of places & annihilation of time • Space of flows and timeless time We live in culture of virtual reality • Crisis of patriarchilism • Transition to a pattern of social interaction People produce forms of sociability rather than follow models of behavior The Information Age (more innovation & flexibility)

New World • Network society • Innovation & flexibility • “The exclusion of excluders by excluded” • Individualization • Space of flows & timeless time • Decentralization of decision-making • Interdependent world • “Perverse connection”

Perspectives of the New World • Nation-state will survive, but not so their sovereignty; • Global security is depend on the USA; • The state will not disappear, it is simply downsized un the Informational Age; • Further individualization; people will construct their own meaning on the basic of their own experience

Conclusion Nowadays, there is an extraordinary gap between our technological overdevelopment and our social underdevelopment. The author believes that power of mind, reason and science would solve the problems of humankind.

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