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Confronting GlobalizationPostmodern Socialism Revisited

Confronting Globalization: Postmodern Socialism Revisited [Globalization rules, or at least globalization talk rules. All talk of socialism, meanwhile, melts into air. How has this come to be? A decade ago, at least in critical circles, the dominant keyword rather was the idea of the postmodern and it, also, had its influence, spreading into the dailies and talk shows. Whatever else it was, the idea of the postmodern was temporal, and it mixed anxiety and hope in the characteristic figure of the sublime. The postmodern was, notoriously, a negative or at best chronological marker, claiming a sense of ‘being after’, being after the modern, being after the postwar dream, the Keynesian Welfare State, after Fordism, after aesthetic modernism. It replayed an earlier period sense of boredom or ennui, a sense of loss, boredom, of only potential movement, later. Globalization, in contrast, is predominantly a spatial, and active term. It indicates boosterism, dynamism, or else rapaciousness and ruin.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Confronting GlobalizationPostmodern Socialism Revisited

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Hayden, Patrick; el-Ojeili, Chamsy
Beilharz, Peter
Confronting Globalization — Oct 6, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-52305-4
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23 –33
DOI
10.1057/9780230598829_2
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Abstract

[Globalization rules, or at least globalization talk rules. All talk of socialism, meanwhile, melts into air. How has this come to be? A decade ago, at least in critical circles, the dominant keyword rather was the idea of the postmodern and it, also, had its influence, spreading into the dailies and talk shows. Whatever else it was, the idea of the postmodern was temporal, and it mixed anxiety and hope in the characteristic figure of the sublime. The postmodern was, notoriously, a negative or at best chronological marker, claiming a sense of ‘being after’, being after the modern, being after the postwar dream, the Keynesian Welfare State, after Fordism, after aesthetic modernism. It replayed an earlier period sense of boredom or ennui, a sense of loss, boredom, of only potential movement, later. Globalization, in contrast, is predominantly a spatial, and active term. It indicates boosterism, dynamism, or else rapaciousness and ruin.]

Published: Oct 6, 2015

Keywords: Capitalist Development; Critical Circle; Mixed Anxiety; Communist Manifesto; Globalization Talk

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