История по време на глобализация
History in the Time of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary society is undergoing a radical transformation, which poses challenges to Enlightenment-based modernity. Today, we live in a time of disasters and insecurity; because of this, the situation is associated with the term “risk” rather than “progress” and “optimism”. The risk society is a society that does not trust the future. Whether the reference is to postmodernity (Bauman, Lyotard, Harvey, Haraway), late modernity (Giddens), global age (Albrow), or reflexive modernization (Beck, Giddens, Lash), the emphasis invariably falls on the incompleteness of the human project in the context of increasing complexity and insecurity. In terms of system theory, the unforeseen effect of functional differentiation can no longer be controlled by further differentiation. Risk is an institutionalized experience, a cognitive map used to colonize the future. The regime of risk is a function of a global order, not a national one. In this situation, history is perceived as a loss of a world, as a world that, because of globalization, is rapidly moving towards disappearance. Nostalgia arises as a specific form of resistance to the modern understanding of time, to the instant in history and to progress. Nostalgia produces emotions and emotions are a fertile soil for populism. History is entering the sphere of “popular cyberculture”, and as a result, historical culture is changing and the past is acquiring a new cyber appearance seen in distorting mirrors.

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