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Nonlinear causality in Castells's network society: disorder as problem and opportunity under globalization
Author(s) -
HODGE BOB
Publication year - 2013
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/glob.12025
Subject(s) - network society , globalization , technoscience , trilogy , foregrounding , causality (physics) , sociology , politics , cybernetics , phenomenon , political science , political economy , social science , economic system , epistemology , computer science , economics , philosophy , law , artificial intelligence , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
In this article I consider Castells's 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.