Controlling communication and contesting conceptualization: power in twenty-first century global society

摘要

Dedicated to Nicos Poulantzas, this book addresses a world that could not even have been imagined in 1979 when he died. Nonetheless, it addresses that world, in part, in the spirit of that scholar: theorists are political agents and the accounts of the political world they provide are irrevocably interested. Castells' interests are laid out clearly in an autobiographical opening. His interest is in freedom of speech, in the broadest sense - the right to freely communicate and access information.