Global Complexity

Rating:
Summary: A great complex piece of work
Review:
This book, althought slightly informal at times (not in the sense that the work is not formal but rather is lacking appropriate information) is a great book to own if one wants to understand globalisation, and the information age.

it touches on various appropriate topics such as the extremely rapid rate that the global spheres of todays society are changing from a human run world to a machine and technological run world.

read this if you liked or read these titles if you like this:
- Critique of Information. Scott Lash
- Archaeology of Knowledge. Michael Foucault.

overall it is a pretty difficult read but amazing to even comprehend certain topics he brings up in the chapters of this book.

Rating:
Summary: Reads like a PhD dissertation
Review: Urry seemed to condense what should have been 600 pages into 150. And they were some of the hardest 150 pages I've read. Complexity theory is a fascinating topic and its application to globalization is definitely relevant. However, I found Urry very difficult to follow and I was left unconvinced. I would strongly suggest reading M. Mitchell Waldrop's book "Complexity" to get a much clearer perspective on the theory.

Rating:
Summary: Reads like a PhD dissertation
Review: Urry seemed to condense what should have been 600 pages into 150. And they were some of the hardest 150 pages I've read. Complexity theory is a fascinating topic and its application to globalization is definitely relevant. However, I found Urry very difficult to follow and I was left unconvinced. I would strongly suggest reading M. Mitchell Waldrop's book "Complexity" to get a much clearer perspective on the theory.