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[Kevin Quinn]

At 08:43 PM 11/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Louis L'Amour?
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>DP
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>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>>Subject: words
>>Date: Sat, Nov 4, 2000, 8:43 PM
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>>Can anyone name this author? And can anyone tells me if this passage 
>>means anything?
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>>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.

I was all set to guess Chantal Mouffe, but I think Dennis is right. ROTFL


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