...new global ethic and consciousness in the world today, rather than a structural account of the forms globalization takes in the various realms of the political,...point-to-point relations already being rather different from some plural constellation of localities and particulars — is that such relations are first and...

...weight to Jameson's understanding of globalization as a conflictive binary system of classification: I thus propose to "define" globalization as an untotalizable...mostly nations, but also regions and groups, which, 'Since the mid-1970s the MNCs have grown more rapidly than the world economy. In 1976. the 50 largest...

...memoria Debra A. Castillo Frederick Jameson defines globalization "as an untotalizable totality that intensifies binary relations between its parts—...to articulate themselves on the model of 'national identities.'"1 He further clarifies that "globalization is a communicational concept, which alternately...

...terms of the negative relativity which we have identified as productive of foreignness; he describes globalization "as an untotalizable totality which...— mostly nations, but also regions and groups." Such relations are, he argues, "first and foremost ones of tension or antagonism, when not outright...

...and between them. In his attempt to define the term and the forces behind it, Fredric Jameson sees "globalization as an untotalizable totality which...articulate themselves on the model of 'national identities' . . . Such relations," he suggests, "are first and foremost ones of tension or antagonism, when not...

...geopolitical" (1998a, xii8). Indeed, for Jameson an antagonistic definition is what globalization requires: "I propose to 'define' globalization as an untotalizable...'national identities' (rather than in terms of social class, for example)." These confiictual relations are symbolic ones, cultural, although "such symbolic...

...may be appropriately framed. But, as Fredric Jameson (1998b) has emphasised, globalisation produces 'an untotalizable totality which intensifies binary...articulate themselves on the model of national identities' (p. xii). There is a touch of paradox in another expression or slogan that has become popular in China...