ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on manifestations of globalization within the internationalized cultural studies. It explains some of the arguments and analyses required to defend a political-economic universality outside of globalization. The notion of foundational polemics as constitutive of and concealed by one's entry into the world in a determinate set of economic and political relations that are a priori addressed theoretically is opposed to a more or less stable identity or experience as constitutive of subjectivity. The chapter discusses Slavoj Zizek's challenge to oppose "universality" to "globalization". Analyses of globalization can go in one of two directions. The resolution of the glocalization question in international cultural studies seems to be headed toward a reconceptualization of "cosmopolitics", which, on one level, brings the state back into the discussion as a point of convergence between economic and cultural forces and, on another level, reproduces the same "glocal" problematic by reducing the state to a point of convergence of cultural forces.
