Post on 22-Jan-2018
Dzmitry Boichanka
Digital Globalization Lecture‘What globalization is'
What would you say about
globalizationmodernity
technologiesnations
individualcapitalism
societyindustrialization
classes
Fordismpostmodern
postmodernism
second modernity
science
warfare
Post-FordismFacebook
Twitter9/11
implosionsimulacra hyperreality
human rights
privatization
container societycosmopolitanizm
glocalization risk society
network society smartphone
identity
–Steve Jobs
“Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than
you.”
One important phrase to remember
modernity is not a historical coincidence, it was engineered
Modernity started early than you think
Renaissance
Cult of ratio and science initiated the entire epoch
Immanuel Kant
The idea of perpetual peaceModernity supposed globalization from the beginning, but it meant an integration of nations
–Paul Virilio
“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.”
(First) Modernity
PoliticsSocial
EconomyScienceLegal
Surveillance
Nation stateMass (national) society
CapitalismTechnology
PropertyPanopticon
Second (late, liquid, post-) modernity
PoliticsSocial
EconomyScienceLegal
Surveillance
Trans-nation stateCrisis of nation society
Post-fordismMedia
Intellectual propertyControl society
Information (-al, digital, software) age
PoliticsSocial
EconomyScienceLegal
Surveillance
Trans-nation stateNetwork society
Informational economyIT
Enclosure of dataDigital surveillance
It all started with roads
Globalization and then evolved through the history
Why drama?❖ Break with traditions (transforming it into kitsch)
❖ Operationalization and rationalization of everything
❖ Capitalism as an omnipresent persistent evil
❖ Science and technology everywhere is a new normal
❖ New social structure which builds on self-responsibility
❖ Ubiquitous control and surveillance
❖ Uncertainty and risks on every level and scaleetc.
Anthony Giddens
❖ Globalization❖ Risks❖ Tradition❖ Democracy❖ Family
Stuart Hall
❖ Identity and representation
❖ Deconstruction of nations❖ New ethnicity and
diaspora❖ Global postmodern
Zygmunt Bauman
❖ Identity is a project❖ Mobility❖ War for territory❖ New polarization❖ Capital is benevolent❖ Government is pointless
Arjun Appadurai
❖ Imagination and post national world
❖ Imagination is a social practice❖ Ethnosapes, mediascapes,
technoscapes, financescapes, ideoscapes
Self and institutions
reflexivity
rationality
self
institutionway of organization
project of “me”
practicetime space
Basic definition of globalization
local nation regional global
It is a new narrative about power
scales
Which exists due two main features…
Two main features
glocalization
time and space dilationand
It evolved
global capitalismboom of technologies
flows & scapes hybridity
trans-localitiesrisks
reflexive modernization
flexploitationdigital division
anti-globalism
globalismneoliberalism
global terrorism threat
flexibility
global capitalism
Time for questions