ANTB20H3 Lecture 2: Week 2 Appadurai article notes
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Week 2 appadurai disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy. The two main forces for sustained cultural interaction before this century have been warfare and religions of conversion. The world we live in today is characterized by a new role for the imagination in social life. The image , the imagined, the imaginary these are all terms that direct us to something critical and new in global cultural processes: the imagination as a social practice. The imagination has become an organized ield of social practices, a form of work, and a form of negotiation between sites of agency and globally defined fields of possibility. The central problem of today"s global interactions is the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization. The complexity of the current global ecnomy has to do with certain fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture and politics that we have only begun to theorize.
