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	Manuel Castells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Raised primarily in Barcelona as part of a conservative family, Castells became politically active in the student anti-Franco movement as a teenager.
		Castells is also a member of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication.
		Castells lives in Barcelona and Santa Monica, California and is married to Emma Kiselyova.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manuel_Castells (799 words)

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		Castells suggests that the effect of this may not be mass unemployment but the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labour, and a highly segmented social structure.
		Castells concludes by examining the effects and implications of technological change on media culture, 'the culture of real virtuality', on urban life, global politics, and the nature of time.
		Castells describes the origins, purpose, and effect of proactive movements, such a feminism and environmentalism, which aim to transform human relationships at their most fundamental level; and of reactive movements that build trenches of resistance on behalf of God, nation, ethnicity, family, or locality.
	www.prometheus.demon.co.uk /04/04forum.htm (615 words)

	CTheory.net
		Here again, Castells does not elaborate a theoretical model of this placeless space and one is tempted to think of it as binary space where the distance must be measured as two states: zero distance (inside the network) or infinite distance (outside the network), here or nowhere.
		Castells' interest in identities rest on the premise of a correlation between various types of dominant identity and the social institutions of the society, that "each type of identity-building process leads to a different outcome in constituting society" (1997: 8).
		Castells does not present a comprehensive theoretical model of the Network Society and some of this assumptions, for example framing the crisis of the nation state as primarily an "identity crisis", might be of limited reach.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=263 (3170 words)

	Felix Stalder: Review of Manuel Castells' Information Age Trilogy (1998)
		Castells’ main argument is that a new form of capitalism has emerged at the end of this century: global in its character, hardened in its goals and much more flexible than any of its predecessors.
		Castells traces the phenomenon of exclusion across different social and geographic contexts and concludes "the evolution of intra-country inequality varies, what appears to be a global phenomenon is the growth of poverty, and particularly of extreme poverty" (1998, p.
		Castells excels in tracing trends across apparent differences, analyzing the patterns in which they are manifest, and pointing at their conflictual interplay which defines the possibility and the need for political and social action.
	felix.openflows.org /html/netparadigm.html (5801 words)

	REWIRED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castells is an established scholar, professor of sociology and of planning, and chair of the Center for Western European Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Castells' analysis of the actual role of government in the global economy and in the development and application of technology will be a useful reminder to many in the Internet world who don't think it has one, but instead is withering away into the marketplace.
		In these matters Castells is not merely an academic critic but a player, contributing to Europe's development as a member of a high level expert group on the Information Society, and to US economic policy through his relations with BRIE, the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, upon which he depends for much economic analysis.
	www.rewired.com /96/Fall/1227.html (1672 words)

	Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley
		Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed in 1979 in the Department of City and Regional Planning.
		Manuel Castells started his academic career in 1967 at the University of Paris, teaching methodology of social research, and researching on urban sociology.
		In 1998, Manuel Castells received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award from the American Sociological Association for his lifelong contribution in the field of community and urban sociology.
	sociology.berkeley.edu /faculty/castells (779 words)

	Manuel Castells to deliver Birley Lecture - City University London
		Manuel Castells, distinguished sociologist and leading scholar of communication and the information age, will deliver the 18th Birley Lecture on Wednesday 17 March.
		Castells holds the Wallis Annenberg chair of communication technology and society at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
		Castells’ lecture will draw on his current research, which focuses on the comparative analysis of network societies and on the relationship between globalisation and cultural identity.
	www.city.ac.uk /citynews/archive/2004/15032004_2.html (281 words)

	International Higher Education--25/3
		Manuel Castells’ trilogy on the Information Age, first published between 1996 and 1998, was a phenomenon—a publishing phenomenon for the simple reason that it become a best-seller demanding frequent reprints—and an intellectual phenomenon because Castells was delicately posed on the cusp between impenetrable theorizing and breathless popularizing.
		Castells does not aim to be a social theorist; it is certainly not his ambition to add to the stock of ideas about postmodernity.
		Castells has neither the first, nor the last, word on any of these phenomena treated in isolation; in many cases his description and analysis are frankly derivative.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/News25/text003.htm (1442 words)

	The Chronicle - Manuel Castells
		Castells' long journey through so many sphere's, regions and countries describing their current affairs leads to one overarching conclusion: 'dominant functions and processes in the information age are increasingly organised around networks.
		The first domain for Castells as a (former?) neo-marxist is the domain of the economy and the enterprise, both adopting a network structure in the process of globalization.
		Castells is treating networks on a higher level of abstraction (the structure per se) and social reality (mainly the macro-sphere) than the classical empirical network approach which deals with single individuals linked in dyads and cliques and being stars or isolates..
	www.thechronicle.demon.co.uk /archive/castells.htm (4413 words)

	Manuel Castells Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castells lives in Los Angeles, California and is married to Emma Kiselyova.
		Castells' initial focus was on the development of a new urban sociology, with particular emphasis on the role social movements played in the transformation of the urban landscape across the world.
		The Net means the new, networked forms of organization whereas the Self relates to the multiple practices through which people try to reaffirm identity and meaning in a landscape of rapid change.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/manuel_castells.html (441 words)

	Manuel Castells
		Castells' thesis revolves around the effect of the 'rise of the network society' upon politics and power and the 'crisis of informational politics'.
		Castells left many of these questions unanswered in his lecture (it is work in progress), but already he provides a basic analysis leading to some interesting questions.
		Castells raises many interesting questions, some of which I have tried to highlight here, though I feel this is an idea that has many more features to be worked out.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2004-01/castells.htm (1809 words)

	Mr. Manuel Castells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley since 1979.
		In 1983 Castells undertook the study of economic and social transformations associated with the information technology revolution.
		Manuel Castells lives in Berkeley with his wife, Emma Kiselyova.
	www.tampere.fi /iaec2002/english/castells_pop.htm (207 words)

	GSD: PW on Manuel Castells
		Castells begins with a now-familiar post-1989 litany: of technological innovation, capitalist de-structuring, mobility and transformation, military threat and ecological destruction, the globalisation of crime and corruption, the collapse of blocs, the disempowering of political parties, governments and the nation-state, the rise of fundamentalist movements, the successes, divisions and confusions of pluralistic and emancipatory ones.
		Castells recognises the fragmentation/differentiation of feminisms nationally and internationally, nonetheless insisting on 1) a commonality (if not an essence) in the de- and reconstruction of womanhood in independence of and opposition to the partiarchally-imposed role, and 2) this differentiation as a source of strength in a society characterised by networking and flexibility in power struggles.
		Castells then deals with the recent development of the increasingly decentralised/diversified electronic media on the one hand, that of the Internet on the other, and with the implications of their coming merger for the future.
	www.antenna.nl /~waterman/castells.html (8449 words)

	REDCAT: About - Media/Press Room
		Manuel Castells speaks six languages and has spent over twenty years traveling the world, gaining direct personal experience with the cultures and societies he writes about.
		Manuel Castells holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
		Castells was born in Spain in 1942 and grew up in Valencia and Barcelona.
	redcat.org /about/press/11.25.03manuelcastells.html (678 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rise of the Network Society: Books: Manuel Castells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castells obviously has an understanding of all the disparate theoretical areas that would be encompassed by such a huge endeavor.
		Castells suggests that it is through the decline in the labor movement and the devaluing of the laborers that capital has become an increasingly powerful network.
		Castells argues that the government or state is one of the primary motivators of technological progress.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0631221409?v=glance (2729 words)

	Castells, The Internet Galaxy
		In the late 1990s, Manuel Castells wrote the “Rise of the Network Society,”; a multi-volume study of the history of communications technology and its impact on society.
		Castells looks at the early days of community building on the net—generally political /community activists who saw the Internet as a tool to organize and to bring their messages to many.
		Castells is a professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and the book is published by Oxford University Press, so readers should not be surprised that the writing style is scholarly and academic, and while it is accessible, it can be a demanding read.
	bcis.pacificu.edu /journal/2002/01/bookrev2.php (279 words)

	Interview with Manuel Castells
		Excerpts from an Interview with Manuel Castells, a Spanish sociologist who is an old friend of Cardoso and who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.
		Castells: "If there is not a fundamental change in the Brazilian political class, to support a project of modernization, Cardoso will fail.
		Castells: "Since the reality is so new, it is not always recognized that we are not in the process of integration between nations, but between economic networks.
	crab.rutgers.edu /~goertzel/fhccastells.htm (854 words)

	Communication World: The other side of cyberspace - interview with professor Manuel Castells - Cover Story
		Among colleagues, Castells is being called the "first great philosopher of cyberspace," yet most people have yet to hear his name.
		Castells, born in Spain and author of 17 other books, introduces the terms "timeless time" and "the space of flows" to consider these abstract concepts.
		These changes give rise, says Castells, to "real virtuality." The day-to-day lives of humans (wired ones, at least) more and more depend on the content and meaning of the text, images and sounds streaming into their laptops.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m4422/is_4_16/ai_54260069 (1515 words)

	REWIRED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I wrote about Castells a year ago in REWIRED, and again in the November issue of Upside magazine, and I'm told that Wired plans a piece on him in the March issue.
		Castells is a Spanish academic, born in Barcelona and exiled under Franco, who studied sociology with Alain Touraine in Paris, and in 1966, at age 24, became the youngest professor at the University of Paris.
		Castells has been everywhere, speaks six languages (no Asian ones however), has direct personal experience of the cultures and societies he writes about.
	www.rewired.com /98/0126.html (1187 words)

	Space of Flows
		I will then concentrate on a single phrase of Castells - "space of flows", his most famous phrase - and try to uncover its meaning by tracing it, in a kind of backward narrative, to its first occurrence in his work, in the essay "Crisis, Planning, and the Quality of Life" written in 1982.
		Shaping the space of flows: urban economies and information and communication technologies - In his groundbreaking work on the informational society Castells developed a sophisticated line of reasoning to suggest the logic of the space of flows is superseding that of the space of places.
		Castells' concept of the space of flows is dependent on an analysis of the interactions between structures and actors whose behaviour, strategy and policy shape the way informationalism takes hold in society.
	publish.uwo.ca /~mcdaniel/weblinks/spaceflos.html (1675 words)

	sp!ked-IT \| Article \| Stargazing sociologist
		Castells said that when he started his book he had been 'swimming downstream' against optimism about the internet, but was now 'swimming upstream' against pessimism.
		Castells states at the outset that he refuses to engage in 'predictions of the future', because 'I think we barely understand our present, and I deeply distrust the methodology underlying these predictions'.
		Castells confesses that he 'does not deal with all the relevant themes, simply because I did not have the time or energy to write another encyclopaedic book covering most dimensions of social life' (16).
	www.spiked-online.com /articles/00000002D2B6.htm (1651 words)

	Amazon.de: The Rise of the Network Society: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After twenty years of search and investigations, Manuel Castells gathered many information (on the labour market, demography in the world...) borrowed from work and investigations of researchers and thus could describe the change of the world society.
		Unfortunately, I was soon disappointed to find that Castells, with all his remarkable insight into the arts of communication, has not been able to go beyond the oh-so cumbersome turns of phrase typical of academic writing.
		If Castells intends to put into practice his belief that observing, analyzing, and theorizing is a way of helping to build a different, better world (p.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/1557866171 (907 words)

	Marc Tuters: Friday Night@Not A Cornfield: MANUEL CASTELLS
		Manuel Castells in conversation with Not A Cornfield artist Lauren Bon Date: Friday November 11th, 2005 Time: 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM Location: The Not A Cornfield project site, 1201 North Spring St, Los Angeles, CA, Downtown Cost: Free...
		In particular, if cities are to be saved on behalf of citizens, then innovation will come from urban planners, architects, professionals and concerned citizens forming alliances that take a holistic approach to creating multiple meaningful social spaces all around the metro landscape.
		Manuel Castells is the a Research Professor of Information Society at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona.
	interactive.usc.edu /members/mtuters/2005/11/friday_nightnot_a_cornfield_ma.html (801 words)

	CP 275 - Fall 2002 Syllabus
		Manuel Castells, Lee Goh, and Reginald Y.W. Kwok "The Shek Kip Mei Syndrome.
		Manuel Castells, "The City and the Grassroots", Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, Part 4, "The Social Basis of Urban Populism: Squatters and the State in Latin America", pp.175-212.
		Manuel Castells "The Culture of Cities in the Information Age", in Proceedings of the 1999 Library of Congress Conference on "Frontiers of the Mind in the 21st Century", Washington D.C., Library of Congress (Paper in CED Library) (included in Ida Susser (editor) "The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory", Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.)
	www-dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu /cweb02/CP275i/index/CP275_SYL.htm (3618 words)

	Academe - Bright Networks and Dark Spaces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Castells is centrally interested in relations of power as a means of explaining the world, and in the capacity and limits of political action.
		Castells draws on conceptual and quantitative techniques from history, political economy, political analysis, and the material side of cultural studies.
		Castells provides the sociology, a perspective on equality, and a robust notion of informational capitalism in place of the vague "postindustrialism" hitherto in vogue.
	www.aaup.org /publications/Academe/2004/04mj/04mjmarg.htm (3040 words)

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		Manuel Neri's career-long focus on the solitary female form was fully evident in this compact survey gleaned from a decade's worth of work.
		The resignation of Catholic Bishop Manuel Moreno, 72, of Tucson, Arizona, in the wake of a sex abuse-related scandal, was announced by the Vatican in March.
		Manuel Jose Asensio was born in Highland Falls, N.Y., in 1906, and...
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