GINS 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: East China Sea, Reappropriation, Social Change
10 Nov 2016
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Innovations to remove spatial barriers had and continue to have immense significance for capitalism. Role of computers, social media, modalities, cell phones - configured, reconfigured everyday practices. Majority of the world"s population lives in urban areas. An inter-linked capitalist economy embracing the whole planet. A majority of the labour force in knowledge and processing information in advanced economies. People, things, information, and places harden over time and therefore have limited mobility. Solid material realities (people, cargo, newspapers) continue to exist, but because of a wide range of technological developments (in transportation, communication, the internet and so on) they can move across the globe more readily. Social relationships are complex and uneven - may not change. What was solid has tended to melt" and become increasingly liquid. Gases are lighter than liquids and therefore they move even more easily than liquids. All sorts of things flowing in every conceivable direction among many points in the world (e. g. global exports)
