Space of Flows - Castells

Since it was Manuel Castells who created the concept, will quote at length his definition of the space of flows. writes:

Our societies are constructed around flows: flows of capital, flows of information, flows of technology, flows of organizational interactions, flows of images, sounds and symbols. Flows are not just one element of social organization: they are the expression of the processes dominating our economic, political, and symbolic life. ... Thus, I propose the idea that there is a new spatial form characteristic of social practices that dominate and shape the network society: the space of flows. The space of flows is the material organization of time-sharing social practices that work through flows. By flows I understand purposeful, repetitive, programmable sequences of exchange and interaction between physically disjointed positions held by social actors. (p.412)

Castells (1996) 

contrast with

Conceptual (De Bono/Deleuze) -  Poetic/Intuitive (Poeisis/Heidegger) - Performative/Improvised(Fluxus)

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Diagram 1 : As we move along from left to right  we move from the conceptual to the embodied.