1. Day 4: Space of Flows: Manual Castells

2.  Problems Network Society  Space of flows vs. space of places

3.  People no longer primarily see selves as part of city, nation or state; they identify as individuals or as part of limited groups  The influence of the network makes physical places less important  Both political institutions and public sphere break down

4.  “[Metropolitan regions] become nodes in global networks of cities. Indeed, advanced telecommunications, the internet, and fast computerized transportation systems allow for a simultaneous spatial concentration in huge areas and thus for decentralization. Therefore these systems are producing a new geography of networks and urban nodes throughout the world, throughout countries, between metropolitan areas, and within metropolitan areas” (550).

5.  These older forms of identity gave people a “language” to connect with one another  Even if society was a group of competing interest groups (Catholics, working class, business owners), these groups could communicate because they perceived themselves as having a shared identity  For Castells, this is lost in Network Society

6.  political institutions In the past, people would think of themselves as directly connected to their government—they believed that government represented their needs  Public sphere Similarly, they believed that newspapers provided them with a sense of shared public debate

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8.  “separate locations are linked up electronically in an interactive network that connects people and activities in different geographical contexts” (554)

9.  In fact, they become nodes in global networks of cities. Indeed, advanced telecommunications, the internet, and fast computerized transportation systems (includes planes, trains, ships) allow for a simultaneous spatial concentration in huge areas. These systems are introducing a new geography of networks and urban nodes throughout countries, between metropolitan areas, and within metro areas (550)  E.g someone moving to Dayton likely from 1) Southern CA, Colorado, San Antonio—re: bases there

10.  Thinking back to both A Visit from the Goon Squad and “Woman Hollering Creek,” where do we see this happening?

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12.  “The higher the value of people and places, the more they are connected in interactive networks; the lower their value, the lower their connectivity. In exteme cases, some of the places are by-passed by the new geography of segregation. [The infrastructure of these places] reinforces their isolation/segregation” (551)  Cleofilas  People cleaning up after Scotty Hausman concert

13.  Personality—as a result of consumer culture— now reigns supreme ◦ Think of “likes” on Facebook ◦ How do these present you as an “individual” ◦ How important is it for you to think of yourself as an “individual”? ◦ What are the ways that you symbolize your individuality to yourself?

14.  Best explained by “Goon Squad,” with masses of people making their own chioces—what a character in Zero History will call “the industrialization of novelty”

15. ◦ Flip side: communalism—identities that give one “system of values and beliefs to which all other sources of identity are subordinated  Both “Liberal” and “Christian” can function this way  “Me and my group, and my culture, and I do not know anything about the rest” (555)  City in earlier era—forced different kinds of people to mix together, learn something about one another

16.  Problem becomes: how does one live in the space of places if one is constantly connected to flows from elsewhere?

17.  Hybrid of offline and online sociability  Change from patriarchal (nuclear) family to networks of individualized units  Network enterprise  Multicultural cities  Global criminal economy

18.  Coming together around concert  Flash mobs  Spontaneous gatherings friends via text, social media

19.  --as in Visit from the Goon Squad  “hybrid pattern of sociability” (550)  Not “what is this,” but “why is this important”?