Conversations with History: Manuel Castells
March 4, 2010 by biotechconnection.com · 25 Comments
On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley’s Harry Kreisler welcomes social theorist Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, to discuss identity and change in the network society. Series: “Conversations with History” [6/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7234]
I like Castells vision on the impact of the information age on war, I came across Jean Baudrillard’s vision where he states that since the cold war the most dangerous wars are not the war itself but the threat of war.
“the balance of terror is the terror of balance” p. 33 – Simulacra and simulation
And I have been thinking about how it looks now and how it will look like when the digital information age gets more and more mature.
excellent worker!
Castells, your book (The Internet Galaxy) in portuguese is really hard and boring to read! The one who translated it did a great evil with your text!!! But I admire your work very much – please, order a new etition in portuguese.
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He’s a beast! Whoop
[theory Gk. the?ria to look at, behold, contemplate, consider] …The word theory, according to Webster’s bk. of synonyms, is interchangeable with CONJECTURE, SUPPOSITION, PRESUMPTION, POSTULATION, etc. It’s immaterial as to whether the politically-correct {Marxist} world wants to turn the language on its head. As in days of olde, it’s time to resist those who are bent on destroying traditional Western Culture. One would hope that any theory proffered by scientists has something to bolster it.
Me too!
lol???
I am a big fan of him
Wow! This is the dumbest professor on the face of the earth. Why is this Castells idiot on this show? I used to like this show… Up yours, Castells
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linguistics bitch
i’m a double major in sociology and political science. i consider myself an interdisciplinarian. comparatively, sociology is the most beautiful discipline among the social sciences. Very broad, but also allows for in-depth analysis.
+If you google ‘Austrian vs. Neoclassical Analytics Murphy’ you can find a pretty good lecture on the subject. (on the Mises Institute webpage)
You see that this significantly differs from the neoclassical perspective. Praxeology tells us that it is actually not possible to come up with scientific models for the economy by empirical testing, simply because it’s foundation is ultimately human behaviour.
~Murray Rothbard, Praxeology
That he
employs means implies that he believes he has the technological
knowledge that certain means will achieve his desired ends. Let us note
that praxeology does not assume that a person’s choice of values or goals
is wise or proper or that he has chosen the technologically correct
method of reaching them. All that praxeology asserts is that the
individual actor adopts goals and believes, whether erroneously or
correctly, that he can arrive at them by the employment of certain means.”
“Let us consider some of the immediate implications of the action
axiom. Action implies that the individual’s behavior is purposive, in
short, that it is directed toward goals. Furthermore, the fact of his action
implies that he has consciously chosen certain means to reach his goals. Since he wishes to attain these goals, they must be valuable to him;
accordingly he must have values that govern his choices.
Nah you misunderstand what I’m saying. Human acts in way A because he prefers it to current situation B. It does not matter if A means pulling your eyeballs out and eating them and B relaxing in a whirlpool.
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“Man does not strive after happiness; only the Englishman does that”- Nietzsche
There is no human nature, sure, at our present time the majority are englishmen, but there are still people that, like other times, don’t strive for improving their situation, but for other thing, like glory in greek, roman and medieval times, even if they had to suffer and even die. We may do acts because we prefer them, but doesn’t mean because we want a better situation.
What i wrote was that human acts because he want’s to improve his situation. That’s why we get out of the bed in the first place right, because we prefer in that moment standing up over not doing that, otherwise it wouldn’t happen.
Neoclassical? ‘Praxeological’ would be the word. The neoclassical analyses of pretty much anything is more esoteric than scientific. They come up with ideas that are not accessible by people who don’t get paid for it with magic make-belief dollars.
Well I was actually laughing at the neoclassical concept of a rational being.