Fwd: question about Manuel Castells

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 23 07:32:22 PDT 2002


Michael Pollak wrote:


>That was my experience exactly, except that I blamed it more severely on
>him. At first skim, he looked like he was going to connect a lot of
>interesting stuff that hadn't been connected before. But after 50 pages
>my strong impression was that the only connection he provided was
>juxtaposition, and that his only theory was that everything was somehow
>connected.

He excels at creating empty but important-sounding phrases like the "space of flows." For that, you get the big EU consulting contracts and the big speaking fees.

Doug



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