ABSTRACT
As theory has moved from "critical" to "post-critical", globalization as a topic has managed to retain its centrality in both, keeping an edge of criticality, it deals in geopolitical issues, and a breath of post-ness, it embraces guiltless making in a huge arena. Theoretically, Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has taught us that global power transcends the nation state and works according to a logic of transnational corporations feeding on markets, big and small, local and universal. Arjun Appadurai has taught us that globalization enters the imaginary as much as it enters into national politics and economics, transforming into identities that are less corrupted than creatively transformed. Cultural theory in general tells us that globalization, unlike internationalism and modernism, does away with western hegemony. In all of this, globalization looks kind of interesting, creative.
