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