ABSTRACT
Nationalism, in the company of the state, is exposed to processes of fragmentation as the nation itself fractures. The line between racism, discrimination, the aggressive intolerance of others and nationalism is ever thin, and, in an age where 'political correctness' produces silence rather than change, is so often drawn, but invisibly. Those people deemed to be other can and will increasingly fall into an indeterminant cultural space as nations fragment and nationalism weakens. Added to the dissolutionary agency of economic globalism to the structure of nationhood, is the coming economic impact of climate change. Globalist civilisations are essentially technocentric, consumerist in character and in their dispositional drive. The city of globalism is already visible as post-urban mega-forms. Rather than being seen as a new development, what is occurring is a continuation of processes put in place by the colonialism and imperialism that accompanied modernity, but stripped of any idealism and directed by neo-liberalism.
