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The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (3 vols.) Manuel Castells Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, 1997 & 1998. Reviewed by Noel Castree Millennial post-Marxism With the fin of the last siecle coinciding with the end of the millennium, apocalyptics abound. Using the year 2000 - or what Neil Smith wryly calls that 'arbitrary moment of time ... fixed with epochal significance' - as an excuse, there has been no shortage of dystopian visions of our global future to choose from.! And not all of these conform to the familiar 'end of the world is nigh' scenario so beloved of fringe religious groups. Even secular types like me - devotees of that weasel-word 'reason', who purport to offer sober, empirically-substantiated appraisals of current political-economic, cultural and environmental realities - can succumb to the temptations of chiliastic thought. Such thought usually has two key characteristics. First, it suggests that the new millennium represents a temporal break in human affairs, a qualitative shift into a new era. Second, it proposes to account for that shift with reference to an overarching explanatory framework of greater or lesser complexity and sophistication. Over a decade in the making, Manuel Castells's three-volume opus - The Information
Historical Materialism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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