ABSTRACT
Of axial importance to the ontology of globalization's current moment — perhaps for all its moments and periods — is communicative connection. All communication, even the phatic variety, carries some content and expresses subjectivity; and because of this agency, if not human agency, is ever-present, something often forgotten in studies of globalization that are over-reliant on structural explanation and material factors. Globalization seen as connectivity is very inclusive concept, but connection and exchange, while necessary, are not sufficient indicators of globality. This chapter then focuses on what are rather loosely called "new" media — Internet technologies and platforms — allows us to examine the structuration and functioning of emergent globalities, and that this focus points up hyper-typical features of current globality. The term hyper-typical is convenient, though somewhat polemical, attribution for varied set of processes that, as Barry Sandywell writes, "generate extreme versions of real without any origin or stable ground", which syncs with lightness and indeterminacy of emergent globalities.
