ABSTRACT
The key feature of the global age is represented, on one hand, in the form of material constitution of the new planetary order, and, on the other hand, in the form of creating a new social life. The paradigm shift that is taking place in the world economic and political order announces the decline of the modern theories of power, i.e. what was in Modernity considered as transcendent to productive and social relations is now being formed inside and immanent to these processes. The binary structure of power cannot exist in the reality of multiple and interconnected networks that push the political synthesis of the social space in the field of virtual communication. The global project of network power is entirely virtual, boundless and flexible, and its identities are hybrid and fluid. The basic position in this chapter is that the project of globalisation did not derive from modernity, but that it is a project created within capitalism beginning immediately after World War II, with two fundamental assumptions that needed to be dealt with: firstly, the development of Information Technology constituting the technical basis of virtual communication; secondly, the fall of the Berlin Wall as the metaphor of the fall of socialism announced the processes of formation of national states, which turned this part of the world into one of the greatest investment opportunities in the last decade of the twentieth century.
