Corrosion Books: Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. By: John P. Broomfield

Virtuosity, Processual Democracy and Organised Networks

“…46 Accompanying this trend, according to Beck's summation of the general discourse on economic globalisation, is a society that has lost its 'collective self--consciousness and therefore its capacity for political action'. 48 Beck dismisses this fatalistic scenario in which the totalising effects of economic globalisation debilitate political action, though he sees such a discourse as little more than the incapacity of people to advance out the imbroglio of some kind of false--consciousness (9). Beck's faith in the possibility of an alternative political culture is evidenced by the political actions undertaken by global civil society movements, which operate within a different dimension or layer of what he refers to as the experience of 'globality'-or a 'world society' conceived of as a 'multiplicity without unity', as distinct from processes of economic 'globalisation' and the neoliberal ideology of 'globalism'.…”