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People Are People: From Mass to Network Models of Governance

In his book, The Rise of the Network Society, Manuel Castells makes a distinction between the “space of places” and the “space of flows.” The space of flows is the spatial logic of autonomous circuits—the expression and arrangement of flows (flows of information, social operations, social bodies, etc.) distributed across space, independent of territorial sites (the space of places). The spatial site is node, or a “special economic zone,” within the distributed topography of accelerated flows. Appadurai’s concept of financial scape saw these lines of flight within the market as interlocking global networks, abstracted from geography. Globalization corrects the issue of non-simultaneity by speeding up material development. Disjunctive flows absorb and rearrange political forms according to the rhizomatic dynamics of global supply chains. Creolization is a consequence of disjunctive flows as connectivity undermines national borders and cultural hybridization emerges out of the accelerative thrust.


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