ABSTRACT
This chapter considers dramatic performances of cosmopolitan encounters within the transnational framework of the call-centre industry in India. Have the virtual intimacies generated by new media and market technologies ushered in a cosmopolitan connectivity? What utopic gestures do we glimpse from portrayals of cross-cultural contact in the age of the copy? By considering the intersection of consumer fantasy, global capital, and the neoliberal state, this chapter tracks the affinities between economic globalization and cultural cosmopolitanism.
