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is a discourse pertaining to technologies, the market, tourism and information. Universality persist in values, human rights, universality freedoms, culture, and democracy.

Globalisation and universality are not equivalent terms... in fact they could be considered mutually exclusive. Globalisation pertains to technologies, the market, tourism and information. Universality pertains to values, human rights, universality freedoms, culture and democracy. Globalisation seems to be irreversible... the universal on the other hand seems to be disappearing, at least in so far as it constitutes a system of values for Western modernity with no counterpart in any other culture. (Baudrillard, in Grace et al., 2003: 23)' (SMITH IN BAUDRILLARD)'']']']'...

is a new type of universalism in history. A universal process of historical narration.

Globalization a universal process of historical narration. 'a new type of universalism in history'. (abbot)

is a phenomena whereby the idea of distance is collapse and 'real space' has been lost to 'real time', or telepresence.

For Virilio, globalization means that 'real space' has been lost to 'real time', which is that of a present, or a 'telepresence', inscribed in the Internet, a space with

is a phenomena whose study requires a shift from two-dimensional euclidian space with its centers and peripheries and sharp boundaries, to a multidimensional global space with unbounded, often discontinuous and interpenetrating sub-spaces.

Globalization entails a shift from two-dimensional Euclidian space with its centers and peripheries and sharp boundaries, to a multidimensional global space with unbounded, often discountinuous and interpenetrating sub-spaces' (Kearney 1995:549)

is a phenomenon better referred to as mondialisation since what is at issue is the changing definition not of the globe or the earth, but of 'the world'.

the world is 'neither the earth nor the universe nor the cosmos.' He then went on to ask provocatively: 'Why do the English, the Americans, and the Germans speak of globalization and not (as the French do) mondialisation'' (2005b, 118).

is a process that has shrunk the distance between elites, shifted key relations between producers and consumers, broken many links between labor and family life, obscured the lines between temporary locales and imaginary national attachments'.

has shrunk the distance between elites, shifted key relations between producers and consumers, broken many links between labor and family life, obscured the lines between temporary locales and imaginary national attachments' . .. . 'the scope and force of globalization problematizes traditional center-periphery models of cultural exchange... the new 'global cultural economy,' Appadurai argues, must be rethought as a 'disjunctive' order, in light of the 'global cultural flows' that mark its character.' Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community By Daniel Robert DeChaine)

is a set of processes generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power.

'Globalization may be thought of as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity and impact generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power.' (held)

is a tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization.

the central problem of todays global interactions is the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization' (Appadurai modernity 32).

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