CONTENTS // List of Contributors vii // Preface xi // Introduction 1 // Mike Feat her st one and Scott Lash // Part I Technological Space 14 // 1 Growth and Failure: The New Political Economy and its // Culture 14 // Richard Sennett // 2 Simulated Sovereignty, Telematic Territoriality: The Political // Economy of Cyberspace 27 // Timothy W. Luke // 3 Digital Networks and Power 49 // Saskia Sassen // Part II Cultural Mapping 64 // 4 The Postmodern Urban Condition 64 // Michael Dear and Steven Flusty // 5 Roaming the City: Proper Women in Improper Places 86 // Hilary Radner // Part III Reflexive Space 101 // 6 Not All that is Solid Melts into Air: Modernity and // Contingency 101 // Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner // 1 Moving Culture 116 // Ron Eyerman // 8 Radiated Identities: In Pursuit of the Temporal Complexity of // Conceptual Cultural Practices 138 // Barbara Adam // VI // CONTENTS // Part IV Cartographies of Nation 159 // 9 Triumphalist Geographies 159 // Michael J. Shapiro // 10 The Anti-reflexivist Revolution: On the Affirmationism of the // New Right 175 // Göran Dahl // Part V Transcultural Place 194 // 11 Transculturality: The Puzzling Form of Cultures Today 194 // Wolfgang Welsch // 12 Towards a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights 214 // Boaventura de Sousa Santos // 13 The Hybridization of Roots and the Abhorrence of the Bush 230 Jonathan Friedman // 14 Narrating the Postcolonial 257 // Couze Venn // Index 283