ms, regions, or countries' (Castells,
2000b, p. 10). Second, it is global, since 'its core strategic activities have the
capacity to work as a unit on a planetary scale in real time or chosen time'
(Castells, 2000b, p. 10). Finally, the new economy is netruorked. It is based
upon information networks such as the Internet, as well as the networked
enterprise becoming the dominant form of economic organization, at whose
heart is no longer the capitalist firm, but global financial markets and business
projects based upon short-term strategic alliances and partnerships. For
Castells, the networked enterprise is a logical corollary of electronic business,
as it is based around 'the Internet-based, interactive, networked connection
between producers, consumers, and service providers' (Castells, 2001, p. 75).
The corollary of a network society, and a neiv economy based on information,
globalization, and networking, is that power is increasingly organized
around the space of flolus. These are constituted in three ways. First, they are
constructed electronically through the co~r~~nrnzicatiotlnetsl vorks themselves,
and spatially through the rise of global cities as centres of commerce and
communications. Second, tecl~~lopolessu ch as Silicon Valley in California,
Bangalore in India, Guangzhou Province in China, and Malaysia's Multimedia
Super Corridor, provide examples of how the global space of flows is
constructed through its 'nodes and hubs', and how nation-states increasingly
compete to establish locations within their territorial domain as central points
in this global network. Finally, for Castells, the global space of flows is constituted
cllltltrally, through the shared experiences and practices of geographically
mobile managerial and knowledge workers, elites who, while still
predominantly North American and European, are increasingly deracinated,
with the rise of global elites from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and
Africa, and the increasingly multicultural nature of the metropolitan centres
(Castells, 1996, pp. 410-1s).
A particularly marked feature of Castells' analysis of the Information Age
and the network society is the sharpness of the distinction he makes between
the deterritorialized spaces through which networks of information, power,
cultural forms and economic transactions flow, and the places of work,
cult~lral experience, historical memory and everyday life. For Castells, 'the
space of flows of the Information Age dominates the space of places of
people's cultures', with the result being that 'the network society disembodies
social relationships ... because it is made up of networks of production,
power, and experience, which construct a culture of virtuality in the global
flows that transcend time and space' (Castells, 2000a, pp. 369, 370). This is
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