----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:43 PM Subject: words
> Can anyone name this author? And can anyone tells me if this passage
> means anything?
>
> Doug
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> >The multiple processes that constitute economic globalization
> >inhabit and shape specific structurations of the economic, the
> >political, the cultural, the subjective. In so doing, new
> >spatialities and temporalities are produced. These new spatialities
> >and temporalities of the global do not stand outside the national.
> >They are partly inserted in the national and hence evince complex
> >imbrications with the latter. This is especially so because, in my
> >reading, the global is itself partial, albeit strategic. The global
> >cannot (at least for now) fully encompass the lived experience of
> >actors or the domain of institutional orders and cultural
> >formations; it remains a partial condition. As a result the outcome
> >of these multiple imbrications between the national and the global
> >is overlap and interaction rather than mutual exclusivity. The
> >extent to which there is overlap and interaction is perhaps one of
> >the marking features of the current era.