Social/Philosophical Theory
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Examples Of Dialectics
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Abstracted Compilation) [SOURCE: Long Live Mao Zedong Thought , a Red Guard Publication.] 1.Manuel Castells ( Spanish : Manuel Castells Oliván ; born 1942, Hellín , Albacete , Spain ) is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society , communication and globalization . The 2000–09 research survey of the Social Sciences Citation Index ranks him as the world’s fifth most-cited social science scholar, and the foremost-cited communication scholar. [ 1 ] He was awarded the 2012 Holberg Prize , [ 2 ] for having "shaped our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society." [ 3 ] [ edit ] Life
Manuel Castells
The following are a series of notes. They are neither sequential in presentation nor didactic in tone. (Numbering allows for identification not prescription.) They can be ordered and reordered. They provide a setting in which mapping and development – traditionally understood as the present and the future – can be rethought thus allowing the urban another expression.
Complex Urbanism
1981 article about a US Government housing policy - conceived in the aftermath of the 1960s ghetto riots - arguing that the policy was aimed at removing concentrations of potentially rebellious blacks and other poor people from the inner city and disperse them in small groups to the suburbs. Serious issues have been raised about some of the facts of this article, which are discussed here , but we reproduce it for reference. Published in 'Midnight Notes', Vol. II, #2, July 1981, MA, USA Original article first published by the Yulanda Ward Memorial Fund, Washington, 1981(?). Spatial Deconcentration in D.C.
Spatial deconcentration in D.C. - Midnight Notes
Félix Guattari
Pierre-Félix Guattari ( French: [gwataʁi] (listen) ; April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French militant , an institutional psychotherapist , philosopher , and semiologist ; he founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy . Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze , most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia . [ edit ] Biography
Gilles Deleuze ( French: [ʒil dəløz] ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy , literature , film , and fine art . His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia : Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari . His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus . [ 2 ]