[Air-L] Some reflections on Manuel Castells book "Networks of outrage and hope. Social movements in the Internet age"

[Natalya Godbold]

'I suspect Castells would see environmentalism as a network of hope. ' ..
Reminds me of this:
http://io9.com/5966689/after-extensive-mathematical-modeling-scientist-declares-earth-is-fucked

Werner, a complex systems researcher at UC San Diego, spoke on Wednesday at
the huge American Geophyiscal Union conference going on in San Francisco.
This is a meeting where a typical talk might be called "Status and
potential capacities to sequester carbon of China's terrestrial ecosystem,"
or "The significance of the opening angle of pyroclast ejection during
explosive volcanic eruptions." Werner's talk really was called "Is Earth
Fucked?" [...] Capitalist culture tends to encourage decreases in
"dissipation of transactions" – it is much easier to get food now than it
used to be, or to talk to someone not next to you. These changes reduce
friction within our system, and a reduction in friction "promotes
instability." [...] The abstract for Werner's invited talk at the AGU went
even farther, stating that the an important solution is "Environmental
direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in
protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists
and other activist groups."

;-)
Natalya


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Scott MacLeod <helianth at gmail.com> wrote:

> e Power of Identity" (2004, rev. ed.) here on networks
> and environmentalism (pp. 180s). I suspect Castells would see
> environmentalism as a network of hope. Does he touch on this in his
> new book? (I've taught a course for 7 semesters on 'Society and
> Information Technology,' on Harvard's virtual island in SL, engaging a
> fascinating course of his I attended at UC Berkeley in 2000). I also
> just added your paper and Castells' new book to World University and
> School's 'Network Society.' wiki, subject page:
> http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Network_Society.
>



-- 
Natalya Godbold
PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney

Autonomous, Responsible, Alone (Interdisciplinary Press):
https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/medical-humanities/autonomous-alone-responsible
Social Information Research (Emerald)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1876-0562&volume=5




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