[I just sent the following piece off to the Churchill College Newsletter – the lighter of our two alumni publications - at the request of my old tutor. It’s difficult packing three chapters into 500 words, but I think I managed it without making too many overgeneralizations. It’s probably more difficult knowing my former fellow MCR members might read it.]
“Only connect...”
The oft quoted epigraph to E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End seems to be the contemporary zeitgeist. From Facebook and Twitter to the models of innovation that have informed university research policies for the past decade, a virtual obsession with connecting abounds. Of course, there is little doubt that networks seem to be powerful explanatory models for complex phenomena. But what happens when the model of social networks travels from the circles of social science and complexity theory into the realm of ‘folk’ social theory? Are the social networks of theory also the social networks of management, policy, and pop-culture?
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