The Age of Ghost-Modernism? The Neo-liberal Globalization Project vs. the Anti-Globalization Counter-Narrative: A Dialogic Inquiry
The Age of Ghost-Modernism? The Neo-liberal Globalization Project vs. the Anti-Globalization Counter-Narrative: A Dialogic Inquiry

Summary/Abstract: The hollow closure of post-modernity's neo-liberal formative context and codifying social practices is what I refer to as „ghost-” or „spectral modernity”. According to Schumpeter's classification, this commodified, irreflexive and „eternal now” that we keep traversing at ever-increasing speed is the fourth (and final!) Kondratieff long-wave of capitalist cycles. After the trinity of the Industrial Revolution (1780s – 1842), the „Railroad-ization” (1842 – 1897) and the „Innovative Revolution” (1898 - end of the 1930s) we are now traversing another trinity: Modernity – Post-Modernity – Ghost-Modernity (spanning the two Great Depressions, and brought about by arguably the most revered trinity since the advent of the cult of Christianity: privatisation, de-regulation and global economic „liberalization”).

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