The presence of McDonald’s in Moscow signaled the triumph of capitalism inthese post-Cold War years, spread by new patterns of globalization
McDonald’s (and by extension, foods like chicken nuggets) symbolized U.S. capitalist values penetrating former Communist societies, turning fast food into a geopolitical marker
That began to change in 1975, when another cookbook, The Book of Tofu, waspublished and its authors William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi traveled the UnitedStates spreading the gospel of tofu and launching tofu businesses all over
Tofu became popular in America as part of a broader interest in Eastern philosophies, vegetarianism, and health-conscious eating. Tofu symbolized a cultural shift in diet and values, representing protest against industrial food and war, and interest in Eastern traditions.
Milanovic predicted the gap between Western workers and those indeveloping countries would mean huge migratory pressure as peoplemoved to higher-wage countries
Milanovic, Branko. The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality. 1st edition. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Globalization, rather than unite the world has split societies asunder: creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
for - quote - Trump is the backlash to globalization
quote - globalization - Trump is the result - Robert Kaplan - Globalization, - rather than unite the world - has split societies asunder: - creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and - an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. - It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. - What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
globalization
connections (with other countries and/or people with other countries)
homogenous culture (a-ha! corporations, facebook)
For example: minority languages are being lost because they're being pushed out (sometimes government sanctioned)
trade (economic aspect to it as well)
cultures (cultural exchange), nothing's in a silo or vacuum but connected
influence and information
3 or more? How much power do these countries have--and influence across the globe?
unilateral globalization
Not just globalization but "unilateral" globalization referring to a universal or one-world version of westernized capitalism?
before you go anywhere near globalization you've got to firstly to Define what it is
for - definition - globalization - Yanis Varoufakis
definition - globalization - Yanis Varoufakis - globalization does NOT mean global trade. That is always a good thing - globalization is the total lack of regulation of financial power, allowing money to rule the world - power shifts from land owners to factory owners
financialization you have another transation from the owners of capital to the bankers
for - economic power shift - from capitalism to globalization - factory owners to bankers - Yanis Varoufakis
for - compare - globalization - mondialisation - Derrida
Globalization from below
for - globalization from below - anti-globalization movement - global justice movement
@ZettelDistraction said Perhaps the shipping hub is a better analogy for the Zettelkasten than the shipping container (Ahrens, 40).
We should be careful to separate the ideas of analogy and metaphor. Analogies are usually more direct and well-defined in scope.
While there's an apt and direct correlation between shipping containers and zettelkasten as boxes, Ahrens was making the analogy with respect to the shift that shipping containers made to the overall system:
shipping containers : shipping industry and globalism :: zettelkasten : thinking and writing/content creation
As with many analogies, stretching it the way one might stretch metaphors isn't usually fruitful or even possible.
In hindsight, we know why they failed: The ship owners tried to integrate the container into their usual way of working without changing the infrastructure and their routines. They tried to benefit from the obvious simplicity of loading containers onto ships without letting go of what they were used to.
He's saying one needs to consider how one's note taking method fits into their work in a more integrative way. Without properly integrating it into one's workflow seamlessly the system will fail. This is also one of the most difficult problems many zettelkasten aspirants have. In addition to creating a zettelkasten, they're often also simultaneously trying to integrate new (digital) tools into their process at the same time and they get distracted by them rather than focusing on the move to increasing writing/creating and creativity overall (globalism).
To focus on Ahrens' analogy a bit, if Obsidian, for example, is your "ship", is it as custom built for your specific purpose the way a container ship would be for a cargo container? Might you be better off with something like The Archive, ZKN3, or simple index cards that help to limit you to only do the function you want rather than all the other possible functions (wiki, blog, to do list, calendar, journal, kanban, etc.)? Obsidian and many other applications can be a proverbial row boat, a yacht, a tugboat, a steamer, a cruise ship, and even a warship in addition to a container ship, so one has to be extra careful how they choose to use it.
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 20.1 (1899) 108-113 (at 108): With all our advance in scientific astronomy, the average modern man is not so familiar with the sky as was his antique brother, and some of the blunders in modern works of fiction that are scored from time to time in scientific journals would hardly have been possible for a ploughman of antiquity, not to say a sailor. The world needs every now and then a reminder that the modern head holds different things from the ancient brain-pan, not necessarily more.
How painfully true this may have been in 1899, it's now much worse in 2023!
Specialization of knowledge tends to fit the lifeways of the people who hold and maintain it. Changing lifeways means one must lose one or more domains and begin using or curating different domains of knowledge.
In a global world of specialization, humans who specialize are forced to rely more heavily on the experience and veracity of those around them who have also specialized. One may be able to have a Ph.D. in astrophysics, but their knowledge of the state of the art in anthropology or economic policy may be therefore utterly undeveloped. As a result they will need to rely on the knowledge and help of others in maintaining those domains.
This knowledge specialization means that politicians will need to be more open about what they think and say, yet instead politicians seem to be some of the least knowledge about almost anything.
This is just the start of a somewhat well-formed thesis I've developed elsewhere, but not previously written out... more to come...
One of those factors is globalization which has helped lift hundreds and millions out of poverty, most notably in China and India, but which, along with automation has also ended entire economies, accelerated global inequality, and left millions of others feeling betrayed and angry at existing political institutions.
An awareness of other structural, economic issues that are weakening democracy: Globalization, Automation, Inequality.
Bayerlein, M., Boese, V. A., Gates, S., Kamin, K., & Murshed, S. M. (2021). Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic. 2(3): 389–428. https://doi.org/10.1561/113.00000043
No one but Humboldt had looked at the relationship between humankind and nature like this before.
Apparently even with massive globalization since the 1960s, many humans (Americans in particular) are still unable to see our impacts on the world in which we live. How can we make our impact more noticed at the personal and smaller levels? Perhaps this will help to uncover the harms which we're doing to each other and the world around us?
Razin, A., Sadka, E., & Schwemmer, A. H. (2020). DEglobalizaion and Social Safety Nets in Post-Covid-19 Era: Textbook Macroeconomic Analysis (Working Paper No. 27239; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27239
Garrett, G. (2020 May 18) The post-COVID-19 world could be less global and less urban. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/coronavirus-covid19-urbanization-globalization-change/
Gray, J. (2020 April 01). Why this crisis is a turning point in history. https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/04/why-crisis-turning-point-history
Robinson, A. (2020). How did ancient cities weather crises? Nature, 583(7816), 349–350. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02070-5
Prem, R., Kubicek, B., Uhlig, L., Baumgartner, V. C., & Korunka, C. (2020). Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Cognitive Demands of Flexible Work [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mxh75
Blair Reeves, a friend, and an occasional Margins contributor (on remote teams) wrote a persuasive piece on how companies should people based on what value they add, not pay them differently based on where they want to live. In some ways, I understand. People who live in more expensive neighborhoods in NYC or SF should not get paid more than those who decide to live farther away.
Actually, they kinda do? Salaries should be a function of local prices. An expensive city should have higher salaries for workers to be able to afford living in it. The fact that now companies became so huge to cross world-wide borders (a relatively new phenomenon) doesn't change that.
Commerce follows theland and sea routes of the earth, going to whatever country hasany thing to exchange, be it a monarchy or a republic. Let us bein union with the whole world and not with just a part of it, notwith one part against another.
ltbach and Knight (2007) def ine globalization as “the economic, political, and societal forces pushing 21st centur y higher education toward greater international Audem_06.indd 9911/22/12 7:17 PM100AUDEMinvolvement” (p. 290).
Globalization definition
Globalization from below had arrived.
an interesting turn of phrase here
in a more polychronic culture, people would stand closer to each other while talking. So time and space are related in the social as well as the physical world.
Could the relationship between polychronicity and physical proximity help to explain the use of situated and/or spatial language in globalized, virtual social coordination work?
Note: National studies of polychronicity have been conducted through qualitative methods (observation and interviews)
Globalisation is a process of deeper international economic integration that involves a rapid expansion of international trade in goods and servicesbetween countries, and a huge increase in the value of transfers of financial capitalacross national boundaries,including the expansion of foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational companies.The globalisation process in the last decades has accelerated, due in a large part to rapid developments in information and communications technology,resulting in falling transport cost and faster information flows
This is a text of globalization's definition which includes the characteristics of it.
Arctic Circle
The Region that lies beyond the 66.5 degree latitudinal line is widely accepted as the Arctic Circle. However, there are other indicators of an arctic region such as 10 degree celsius as the maximum air temperature, tundra to taiga biomes, or continuous permafrost. Despite these different labeling standards the Arctic Circle encompasses roughly 15% of the earths land area and 5% of the world ocean. Some areas in this region can go upwards of 130 days with out experiencing a sunrise. This period of time is known as a Polar Night, but is only experienced at latitudes north of 72degrees. Rather than Polar Night, much of the Arctic Circle experiences an extremely long twilight due to the gentle angle at which the sun rises and sets. As technology and globalization has improved, exploration in the Arctic Circle has increased substantially. The Arctic is an incredible asset to scientific researchers as we begin to increase our understanding of the region. Its variation in natural landscapes and ecosystems provide researchers with an extremely biodiverse system to study. This region is also home to an abundance of rich raw materials including gold and natural gas. As industrial interest in this region increase, there will also be an increased need for actors with stake in the region to communicate properly. With almost 30 different territories having claims in the Arctic and an estimated 200 million indigenous peoples living in the region, there are constant socioeconomic and political issues that need to be resolved.
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Hoyos argues that literature from Latin America shows remarkable diversity and reveals trends in how people read and write in today's globalized era.
See notes here for your defintion.
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