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Manuel Castells è un sociologo spagnolo naturalizzato statunitense.

Dopo i suoi studi a Barcellona e alla Sorbona di Parigi, ha iniziato la carriera accademica. Dal 1979 al 2003 è stato professore di sociologia presso l'Università della California, Berkeley. Oggi è Professore in Comunicazione all'Annenberg Center, presso l'University of Southern California .

Ha scritto circa venti libri, tradotti in più lingue. La sua opera più nota è la trilogia intitolata L'età dell'informazione:

La nascita della società in rete;

Il potere delle identità;

Volgere di millennio.

In italiano, oltre alla trilogia, sono stati pubblicati "Galassia Internet" nel 2002 e "La città delle reti" nel 2004.

Nel 2013 gli è stato attribuito il Premio Balzan per la sociologia.

✵ 9. Febbraio 1942
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“L'estrema violenza con cui da un paio di decenni siamo bombardati dai più audaci (e spesso inutili) sviluppi tecnologici sta riducendo la nostra attenzione sull'unica novità realmente epocale: presto tutti noi vivremo in ambienti immersi in una sorta di "retarchia."”

Manuel Castells libro Galassia Internet

Origine: Galassia Internet, p. 211

“Immagino che qualcuno potrebbe dire: "Perché non mi lasciate da solo? Non voglio far parte della vostra Internet, della vostra civiltà tecnologica, o della vostra società in rete! Voglio solo vivere la mia vita!" Bene, se questa è la vostra posizione, ho delle brutte notizie per voi. Se non vi occuperete delle reti, in ogni caso saranno le reti ad occuparsi di voi. Se avete intenzione di vivere nella società, in questa epoca e in questo posto, dovrete fare i conti con la società in rete. Perché viviamo nella Galassia Internet.”

Manuel Castells libro Galassia Internet

Origine: Galassia Internet, p. 262

“Il sistema politico brasiliano è sempre stato corrotto. Durante la dittatura le commissioni erano del 20 per cento. Tutti i governi, a cominciare da quello del presidente liberale Fernando Collor de Mello, sono initi al centro di qualche scandalo, perché nessun presidente può ottenere la maggioranza in parlamento senza comprare sostegno con denaro e incarichi. Il Pt è preso di mira più degli altri perché si era presentato come un'alternativa alla corruzione e perché nel 2005 era già stato coinvolto nello scandalo del mensalão, in cui era emerso che il partito comprava i voti dei parlamentari con i fondi delle aziende statali. Il capo di gabinetto del governo di Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, José Dirceu, è finito in carcere, ma si sospetta che abbia continuato a fare affari con la copertura di una società di consulenza. Roussef è pulita, ma sembra incapace di cambiare il sistema. Un po' perché non fa parte del gruppo fondatore del Pt [(Partito dei Lavoratori)], un po' perché non ha la forza necessaria per denunciare le debolezze di un partito che non vuole abbandonare il potere, come ha dimostrato la campagna di menzogne che ha afossato la candidatura dell'avversaria Marina Silva alle presidenziali. Roussef ha appena presentato un pacchetto di misure contro la corruzione, ma pochi credono che sarà davvero applicato.”

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Origine: Da I liberisti brasiliani scendono in piazza, Internazionale, n. 1096, 3/9 aprile 2015, p. 40

“Lo sviluppo del capitalismo industriale, contrariamente a una visione naturale troppo diffusa, non provoca il rafforzamento della città ma la sua scomparsa quasi totale in quanto sistema istituzionale e sociale relativamente autonomo, organizzato attorno a obiettivi specifici. Infatti, la costituzione della mercanzia in quanto meccanismo di base del sistema economico, la divisione tecnica e sociale del lavoro, la diversificazione degli interessi economici e sociali su uno spazio più vasto, l'omogeneizzazione del sistema industriale causano il nascere della coincidenza di una forma spaziale, la città, con la sfera del dominio sociale di una classe ben determinata, la borghesia. La diffusione urbana equivale giustamente alla perdita del particolarismo ecologico e culturale della città.”

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Manuel Castells: Frasi in inglese

“The anti-globalization movement is not simply a network, it is an electronic network, it is an Internet-based movement. And because the Internet is its home it cannot be disorganized or captured. It swims like fish in the net”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 5, Computer Networks and Civil Society, p. 142

“The promise of the Information Age is the unleashing of unprecedented productive capacity by the power of the mind. I think, therefore I produce. In so doing, we will have the leisure to experiment with spirituality, and the opportunity of reconciliation with nature, without sacrificing the material wellbeing of our children. The dream of the Enlightenment, that reason and science would solve the problems of humankind, is within reach.”

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Origine: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996, p. 390 as cited in: Jari Peltola (2006)

“An analysis [of urban space] is possible only if one reduces social action to a language and social relations to systems of communication. The ideological displacement carried out in this perspective consists in passing from one method of mapping traces of social practice through its effects on the organization of space to a principle of organization deduced from the formal expression listed, as if social organization were a code and urban structure a set of myths.”

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Origine: The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach, 1977, p. 216

“In sum, all the key technological developments that led to the internet were built around government institutions, major universities and research centers. The Internet did not orginate in the business world. It was too daring a technology, too expensive a project, and too risky an initiative to be assumed by profit-oriented organizations.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 1, Lessons from the History of the Internet, p. 22

“As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 3, e-Business and the New Economy, p. 92

“Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasingly indistinguishable from TV scripts.”

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Origine: Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society (2000), p. 13

“At its core, the new economy is based on culture: on the culture of innovation, on the culture of risk, and the culture of expectations, and, ultimately on the culture of hope in the future.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 3, e-Business and the New Economy, p. 112

“This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theory of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identified by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in various cultural and institutional manifestations, as the industrial society characterized the social structure of both capitalism and statism for most of the twentieth century.”

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Origine: Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society (2000), p. 5

“Globalisation is highly selective. It proceeds by linking up all that, according to dominant interests, has value anywhere in the planet, and discarding anything which has no value or becomes devalued, in a variable geometry of creative destruction and destructive creation of value.”

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Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society (2000)

“The collective fascination of the entire planet with action movies where the protagonists are the players in organized crime cannot be explained just by the repressed urge for violence in out psychological make up. It may well indicate the cultural breakdown of traditional moral order, and the implicit recognition of a new society, made up of communal identity and unruly competition, of which global crime is a condensed expression.”

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Origine: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996, p. 211 as cited in: Jari Peltola (2006) " The Place of Politics in Manuel Castells’s Network Society http://www.edemocracy.uta.fi/eng/haefile.php?f=115"

“The most blatant illustration of this statement is the fact that in 1972, Larry Roberts, the director of IPTO, sought to privatize ARPANET, once it was up and running. He offered to transfer operational responsibility to ATT. After considering the proposal, with the help of a committee of experts from Bell Laboratories, the company refused.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 1, Lessons from the History of the Internet, p. 22

“The fundamental digital divide is no measured by the number of connections to the Internet, but by the consequences of both connection and lack of connection.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 9, The Digital Divide in a Global Perspective, p. 269

“[Urban planning] must be interpreted on the basis of the social effect produced by the political instance in the urban system and/or in the social structure.”

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Origine: The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach, 1977, p. 276)

“"The city" is not a framework but a social practice in constant flux the more it becomes an issue, the more it is a source of contradictions and the more its social manipulation is linked to the ensemble of social and political conflicts.”

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Origine: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93

“Cultures are not made from free-floating values. They are rooted in institutions and organizations.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 2, The Culture of the Internet, p. 48

“The Internet is, above all else, a cultural creation.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 1, Lessons from the History of the Internet, p. 33

“But we are not just witnessing a relativisation of time according to social contexts or alternatively the return to time reversibility as if reality could become entirely captured in cyclical myths. The transformation is more profound: it is the mixing of tenses to create a forever universe, not self-expanding but self-maintaining, not cyclical but random, not recursive but incursive: timeless time, using technology to escape the contexts of its existence, and to appropriate selectively any value each context could offer to the ever-present. I argue that this is happening now not only because capitalism strives to free itself from all constraints, since this has been the capitalist system’s tendency all along, without being able fully to materialize it. Neither is it sufficient to refer to the cultural and social revolts against clock time, since they have characterized the history of the last century without actually reversing its domination, indeed furthering its logic by including clock time distribution of life in the social contract. Capital’s freedom from time and culture’s escape from the clock are decisively facilitated by new information technologies, and embedded in the structure of the network society.
The transformation of time as surveyed in this chapter does not concern all processes, social groupings, and territories in our societies, although it does affect the entire planet. What I call timeless time is only the emerging, dominant form of social time in the network society, as the space of flows does not negate the existence of places. It is precisely my argument that social domination is exercised through the selective inclusion and exclusion of functions and people in different temporal and spatial frames.”

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Origine: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996, p. 433–434 as quoted in: Wayne Hope (2006) Global Capitalism and the Critique of Real Time http://www.sagepub.com/dicken6/Sociology%20Online%20readings/CH%202%20-%20HOPE.pdf. Sage publications. p. 289

“The Internet Culture is the culture of the creators of the Internet.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 2, The Culture of the Internet, p. 36

“We must conceive of opposition to decisions relating to urban planning as something more than "consumer-reaction" and, consequently, we must link it to the whole range of social contradictions and look into the conditions for the emergence and the determination of the objectives of social movements in the urban field."”

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Origine: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93-94

“In the end if the system still ‘works’ it is because women guarantee unpaid transportation… because they repair their homes, because they make meals when there are no canteens, because they spend more time shopping around, because they look after others’ children when there are no nurseries, and because they offer ‘free entertainment’ to the producers when there is a social vacuum and the absence of cultural creativity. If these women who ‘do nothing’ ever stopped to do ‘only that’, the whole urban structure as we know it would become completely incapable of maintaining its function”

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Origine: City, Class and Power, 1978, p. 177–178 as cited in: McDowell, Ward, Fagan, Perrons and Ray (2006) "Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women’s Work in the City". In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol 30.1 p. 141–158

“The Internet is indeed a technology of freedom - but it can free the powerful to oppress the uninformed, it may lead to the exclusion of the devalued by the conquerors of value. In this general sense, society has not changed much.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Conclusion, The Challenges of the Network Society, p. 275

“There is a multilayering of global networks in the key strategic activities that structure and destructure the planet. When these multilayered networks overlap in some node, when there is a node that belongs to different networks, two major consequences follow. First, economies of synergy between these different networks take place in that node: between financial markets and media businesses; or between academic research and technology development and innovation; between politics and media.”

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The Rise of the Network Society, 1996

“Literally everything is based on the capacity to attract, retain, and efficiently use talented workers.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 3, e-Business and the New Economy, p. 91

“Societies change through conflict and are managed by politics.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 5, Computer Networks and Civil Society, p. 137

“If valuation in the financial markets provides the bottom line for the performance of the company, it is labor that remains the source of productivity, innovation, and competitiveness.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 3, e-Business and the New Economy, p. 90

“By social movements we mean a certain type of organisation of social practices, the logic of whose development contradicts the institutionally dominant social logic”

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Origine: Urban renewal and social conflict in Paris, 1972, p. 93

“Technological systems are socially produced. Social production is culturally informed. The Internet is no exception.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 2, The Culture of the Internet, p. 36

“The origins of the Internet are to be found in ARPANET, a computer network set up by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in September 1969. ARPA was formed i 1958 by the Defense Department of the United States with the task of mobilizing research resources, particularly from the university world, toward building technological military superiority over the Soviet Union in the wake of the launching of the first Sputnik in 1957.”

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Origine: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 1, Lessons from the History of the Internet, p. 10

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