ABSTRACT
At this point it is appropriate to consider further the presumption in Castells that informational capitalism marks an epochal change. While capitalism remains in force, it is clear too that he believes – as the title of his trilogy announces – that we have entered the ‘information age’. In the foregoing I have raised objections to the technological determinism in Castells’s explanation of change. I want now to examine that further and reflect on it in terms of the question, just how does one identify epochal change? In doing so, I intend to raise doubts about Castells’s concept of information itself which, I shall argue, is vague, eclectic and confusing, albeit central to his depiction of epochal change.
