Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Globalcentrism not Globalcentralism- Biiig Difference

So is globalcentrism good or bad? Do we want a world united by its marketplace? Is it only possible within a marketplace? Our terms and fancy ideologies are what is uniting us- and democracy is infectious. Now is this great or disastrous? To be continued....




So yeah, The article by Coronil mentions St. Augustine who said, “that it is only at the end of a life that one can apprehend its meaning.” This is referring to the delusions that we are at the end of an era. This made me curious for more- and I remembered this book on my shelf that is one of those ones you have but never read through. The book is St. Augustine- Confessions, a dense pile over 200 pages of spiritual philosophy. He says, "It was obvious to me that things which are liable to corruption are good... For if they were supreme goods, they would be incorruptible. If there were no good in them, there would be nothing capable of being corrupted. Corruption does harm and unless it diminishes the good, no harm would be done. Therefore either corruption does not harm, which cannot be the case, or (which is wholly certain) all things that are corrupted suffer privation of some good...." (VII.xii(18) 124). He goes on and I had to read this a few times- but basically I felt that globalization does have some good, but is wholly corruptible and therefore not a supreme good. Ugh, I need to read more- in general.

Gikandi talks about the diaspora of images across the globe- a term I ususally only see next to Judaism,.....

Works Cited:

Augustine, Saint. Confessions. trans. Henry Chadwick. Oxford University Press: New York, 1991. Print.

Coronil, Fernando, 1944-. "Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature." Public Culture 12.2 (2000): 351-374. Project MUSE. 27 Apr. 2010. Web.

Gikandi, Simon. "Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality." The South Atlantic Quarterly 100.3 (2001): 627-658. Project MUSE.



I was able to find a free copy of the complete Coronil article at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20261308/Coronil-Towards-a-Critique-of-Global-Centrism-Speculations-on-Capitalism-s-Nature



1 comment:

  1. I am interested to read the rest of what you started to say. I like how you brought up Coronil's example of St. Augustine, and your explanation of the quote being about the end of an era, and how that is a dillusion. Time magazine recently published some articles about the end of the aughts and how this new decade is going to be so much better. But do you remember when we were kids in the mid 90s and we were promised flying cars in 2000? Well, a lot of good and bad things have happened and developed, but they happen through progression, not suddenly. Rome was not built in a day, but neither did it fall in a day. Globalization is not going to go away, but I think for now, and into the forseeable future it will continue to mostly benefit the developed nations of the world.

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