F�rum Social Mundial: "This is, in our view, a potentially disastrous development. One of the great beauties of our movement - and of the forums that have emerged from and helped to sustain it - is the way in which people from all sorts of backgrounds and with the most diverse preoccupations come and mix together, participating in a process of mutual contamination in which we learn and gain confidence from one another. This dynamic was greatly weakened by the thematic fragmentation and vast size of the WSF site in Porto Alegre this year "

Callinicos has a good point--one that seems to follow all sorts of academic and intellectual trends: as a subject area grows, it fragments into little ghettos of interest so that people can focus on their pet persepectives.