ABSTRACT
Brief yet powerfully concentrated, the Bourdieu speeches from 1999 to 2001 attack US-led neoliberal globalization by means of his signature arguments. He pleads with his audience of intellectuals and academics to recognize the "invisible world government" of multinational corporate giants in industry, finance, and the media. Bourdieu died in 2002, having achieved iconic status in US and UK circles despite being a consistent, harsh critic of what he deplored as US-led, neoliberal globalization. Indeed, the last likens Bourdieu to Sartre and Foucault, all similarly lauded. For someone who actually reads Bourdieu's work, such anointing by bourgeois cultural officialdom smells like an effort to bury and thereby neutralize its sting under mounds of eulogistic hyperbole. Bourdieu explores as well the current depoliticization of the masses and the destruction of independent as well as critical artistic creations emerging from the short-term, profit-driven uniformity imposed by multinational corporations.
