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Subject: Re: <nettime> Digital Identities
From: { brad brace } <bbrace@wco.com>
Date: 27 Mar 1998 07:06:26 +0100

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The space of flows can be described as having at least three layers:

1. Technical: the circuit of electronic impulses (the
micro-electronics, telecommunication, hardware in general) that form
the technological infrastructure of the network.

2. Geographical: the topology of the space formed by its nodes and
hubs. Hubs are defined by the networks but link it to specific places
with specific social and cultural conditions. Nodes are the
"location[s] of strategically important functions that build a series
of locality-based activities and organizations around the key
functions of the network."

3. Social: the spatial organization of the managerial elite using the
network.

The space of flows is characterized by timeless time and placeless
space. "Timeless time... the dominant temporality in our society,
occurs when the characteristics of a given context, namely, the
informational paradigm and the network society, induce systemic
perturbation in the sequential order of phenomena performed in that
context. The space of flows... dissolves time by
disordering the sequence of events and making them simultaneous, thus
installing society in an eternal ephemerality"

(possibly from: Manuel Castell's magnum opus, "The
Rise of the Network Society" (Blackwell, 1996))


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