ABSTRACT
The subject of Chapter 6, Manuel Castells’s concept of the network society, attends to the flows of information and their significance in the world today. Thinking about ways in which information moves helps us appreciate, for instance, novel features of the urban environment (that stem from cities forming information nodes in a connected world) as well as recompositions of social inequality (as information labour emerges as a key category of employment). This chapter’s subject, mobilities, extends Castells’s thought to a more ambitious plane. The concept argues that we should conceive of relations nowadays in terms of mobilities, not just of information flows, but about pretty much everything.
