Bøger af Satyananda Gabriel

This text explores the potential formation of a decentralized Technomass of individuals connected by technology and out of the control of traditional institutional structures, including governments and megacorporations. The style of the text, a collaboration between an economic theoretician - poet and a visual artist, is not, surprisingly, out of the usual textual box. It is simultaneously a work of theory, visual art, and poetry meant to reflect (as a two-way mirror) both the out-of-control-ness of the Technomass and the ongoing struggle to redefine humanity by shaping new types of social relationships, new understandings of individuality, and new possibilities for human creativity and communication within Cyberspace.

The technologies that have given rise to Cyberspace (borrowing the term from William Gibson), in conjunction with other political, cultural, and environmental conditions, have opened the possibility of a new dimension of social and, narrowly, economic space. Cyberspace creates a matrix of possibilities, sometimes contradictory, for new social and economic relationships, only a fraction of which have yet been realized. The papers comprising this text explore these possibilities from the unique perspective of senior seminar students who have grown up with these technologies and are free from expectations based on a world that predates the pervasiveness of Cyberspace. From exploring the transformations in business practices to the impact of Cyberspace on the development of Afghanistan, these papers attempt to expand the boundaries of our understanding of the changes that have already taken place because of Cyberspace.

Addressing the structure and dynamics of the Chinese economy, this book examines the connection between growth and the version of Marxism that has been adopted by the Communist Party of China. Covering the industry, agriculture, labour power and financial markets, it studies the process of integrating the domestic economy into global capitalism.