ABSTRACT
Patterns of global connectivity through communication can tell a great deal about the changing nature of social interaction and the very idea of sociality. globality cannot be taken as a synonym for global consciousness, leaving aside the normative implications that are bundled with the idea. But the concept of consciousness is integral to the idea of globality despite its elusiveness. Financial micro-global structures are obviously elements in the re-spatialization of economic life and they are also based on temporalization, the continuous, iterative, 24-hour cycle of time zones that has replaced the linear rationality of modern institutional structures. Received wisdom on the logic of sustainable and effective collective action assumes that it is essential to have formal organizations that coordinate action, mobilize resources and forge collective identities. The synthetic situations described in this chapter are avatars of global complexity, the expression of connectivity and consciousness.
