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Culture, State, Globalization: The Articulation of Global Capitalism

University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign

Suggesting cultural analysis of the phenomenon of globalization needs to take into account more than studies of subjectivity and communications technology, the author suggests a deconstructive methodology that seeks reconciliation of postmodernism with structuralism and idealism with materialism. Demonstrating points of contact between various social actors in the globalization arena, a sketch is made of the state as a pluralist agent articulating the process of globalizing capital. Motivations to globalize are said to point to a real social by which the political structure of the state is revealed. Subversion of the dominant discourse through self-determined practices of liberty are suggested as a means of constructing alternatives to global capital.

Key Words: culture • state • globalization • resistance • social change

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, Vol. 4, No. 4, 472-500 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1532708604268204


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