Post on 12-Nov-2014
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Cyberpolitics - Week 2: Informational society
Manuel Castells
The TrilogyThe Information Age: Economy, Society and
Culture
Marx and Castells
Mode of productionCapitalismMaterial baseIndustrial societyClass societyDivision of labour ExploitationAlienation - from product Class struggle
Mode of productionCapitalismMode of developmentInformational societyNetwork societySpace of flowInclusion or exclusion -Alienation - culture of virtual reality - threatIdentity and local
industrialism
informationalism
capitalismstatis
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Mode of development
Mode of production
Production - class relation
Experience - gender, sexuality, race, family relation
Power - institutionalized power (state) and microphysics of power
Social process
Class discussion:
Where is Hong Kong located in the map? How do class relation (in production), gender / sexuality / family relation (in our experience) and power relation (institutional and micro-physical) interplay with the macro social political structure in shaping the distinctive character of the city?
Definition of informational society (p.21)
The Net and network society
Space of flows and the integrated global network
Case: Wal-mart
Inclusion or exclusion: Club membership
Culture of virtual realityTimeless time and placeless space
Identity and local movement
transformative identity building process- Legitimizing identity- Resistance identity- Project identity
Anti-Walmart campaign
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATu-WhQ8IsY
Case II: Local Action - preservation campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k18Y8pJGYBc
The role of the state - power
Concluding remarks
Next Class reading:
Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Workshop:
Building our on-line community - list one thing that we need and explain why.