"If it is, in reality, capitalism that is……" — Fredric Jameson
"If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West."
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Fredric Jameson
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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses,…
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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic…
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It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
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Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality,…
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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and,…
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance…
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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural…
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this…
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring…
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for…
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