Глобализацията е научна фантастика
Globalization is Science Fiction

Summary/Abstract: Jutta Weldes claims that by examining the relations between the discourses of globalisation and science fiction, we can begin to understand how globalisation is made meaningful. She exposes the liberal globalisation discourse as fantasy and examines its most important elements: a narrative of progress; the central and wholesome role of global markets; an utopian narrative of technological advance; the trope of the ‘global village’; the interrelated narratives of an increasingly global culture and its inclination to fundamentally authoritarian politics. The author highlights some of the homologies between the globalisation discourse and the discursive universe of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels.

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