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Knowledge and the languages devised for its expression and circulation within communities evolve and drift with the times. The emergence of a new paradigm for technology, economy and society, based on information and knowledge, naturally brings along the need to rearrange and rethink our perception of how the diverse fields and disciplines are organised and classified, how they communicate and interact. A descriptive understanding of the realm of knowledge (as an "archipelago") is discussed, enhancing its reticular character and its operation as a network that does not postulate any common origin or hierarchy. This metaphor is better adapted to map knowledge in a world of intensive communication and networking processes.

The cultures of the economic crisis: an introduction -- Part one: Prelude. 1. The rolling apocalypse of contemporary history ; 2. The separation of cultures and the decline of modernity -- Part two: Which crisis? Whose crisis? 3. The metamorphosis of a crisis ; 4. Financial crisis or societal mutation? -- Part three: Dealing with the crisis. 5. Branding the crisis ; 6. In nationalism we trust? ; 7. Crisis, identity, and the welfare state -- Part four: Beyond the crisis. 8. Surfing the crisis: cultures of belonging and networked social change ; 9. Beyond the crisis: the emergence of alternative economic practices -- Part five: The non-global global crisis. 10. No crisis in China? The rise of China's social crisis ; 11. A non-global crisis? Challenging the crisis in Latin America ; Aftermath? -- Index