ABSTRACT
This chapter considers whether complexity can generate productive metaphors for the analysis of various 'post-societal' worlds. It follows complexity-theorist Brian Arthur's views that what complexity writers are doing is: 'beginning to develop metaphors' and guides the way the sciences are done over the next fifty years of so. The chapter considers whether complexity can provide some metaphors relevant for thinking through the evolving nature of spatial relationships in the twenty-first century. It uses complexity to try to move beyond various positions within social theory. The chapter concerns the systemic non-linear relationships of global complexity that transcend most conventional divides of social science. Power is conceptualised as an attribute of agents, through observing two or more human agents and seeing in what ways, and to what degree, the actions of each are influenced by that of the other.
