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| | Steve Best-Douglas Kellner: Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory |
 | | Kelly argues we need new paradigms, new ideas, and new practices to make sense of and deal with the tumultuous changes that we are undergoing due to the global restructuring of the economy, the proliferation of new technologies, rapid social, political, and cultural change, and the emergence of new modes of thought. |
 | | Kelly is most apt in his description of the novelties of a postindustrial capitalism, or what he terms a "soft capitalism." Hard-style industrial capitalism still exists, of course, but Kelly claims that soft-capitalism is quickly devouring it, as steel, iron, and lumber irrevocably are being sucked into the fl hole of information, circuitry, and software. |
 | | For Kelly, therefore, we are at a key crossroads between the old and the new, "between a resource-based economy and a connected-knowledge one."[xliii] In fact, Kelly does not theorize the current crossroads between the old and the new, as he fails to adequately analyze the continuities and discontinuities between the industrial and postindustrial economic systems. |
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