ABSTRACT
Globalization has transformed the epistemology of our approach to everyday life and altered our discourses and experiences. Due to modern technology, individuals and societies find it easier to communicate. At the same time, however, not everyone has equal access to information: only a few select countries or regions enjoy adequate access to information technology and even fewer are able to use its resources critically and independently. Global power is discriminatory; it applies standardized ground rules set up by the most powerful nations, providing a small sector of the world’s population with privileges while denying them to the majority. International institutions and organizations are characterized by significant intercultural gaps, leading to a lack of mutual understanding. In an era of increasing hybridization, territory is less easy to depict on maps due to complex cross-cultural matrices, and populations across the globe are comprised of individuals with multiple identities. Everyday life consists of texts which have their origins in the unknown, in difference, and in worlds that appear remote.
