As the world becomes more thoroughly interconnected, economically and politically, as people move about in unforeseen, only partially controllable, and increasingly massive, ways...(1)Geertz was writing about identity, as can be seen from the rest of the quote, but it is relevant at the moment what with the novel coronavirus, covid-19. I am sure that Castells has something similar in one of his great, perhaps today overlooked, The Information Age trilogy books.
(1) Geertz, C. (2012). Available light: Anthropological reflections on philosophical topics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
