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It will not be enough to protect “our” people; we will need to have the stamina of true solidarity, which defines “our people” as “all people.”
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Collectively, these technologies weaned the United States off the familiar model of formal empire. They replaced colonization with globalization.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
between the poles of the global and…
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Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
This ungovernable “post-sovereign” world, in the words of the political scientist Wendy Brown, will go far beyond a sense of near-term fragility; it will be instead a long-term macro-trend toward deep instability grinding away over decades. The first result will be massive new concentrations of power and wealth that reorder society.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Meritocracy vs. majority
Mark Leonard • What Does China Think?
Nathan Gardels • The Perils Of Smashing The Past
So far in part 3, we’ve discussed the already precarious condition of the modern nation-state and previewed new threats arriving with the coming wave. We’ve seen how a crushing set of stressors and a colossal redistribution of power will converge to take the one force capable of managing the wave—the state—to a point of crisis.