Premium
Globalization, the knowledge society, and the Network State: Poulantzas at the millennium
Author(s) -
Carnoy Martin,
Castells Manuel
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0374.00002
Subject(s) - socialism , globalization , state (computer science) , politics , relation (database) , sociology , power (physics) , economic system , social science , neoclassical economics , political science , economics , law , communism , algorithm , physics , quantum mechanics , database , computer science
In State, Power, Socialism, Nicos Poulantzas conceptualized a state that materializes and concentrates power and displaces the class struggle from the economic to the political arena. In the past twenty years, much has changed. We argue that economic relations have been transformed by economic globalization, work reorganization, and the compression of space, time, and knowledge transmission through an information and communications revolution. Knowledge is far more central to production, and the locus of the relation between power and knowledge has moved out of the nation state that was so fundamental to Poulantzas’ analysis.