ABSTRACT
Education is represented as a world-dominating force, a worldwide political web that sustains the control and management of knowledge and identities. Its condition signifies the increasing global triumph of biopower that holds sovereign sway following the explicitly colonial era. The relations between the World and the specific worlds of subjects are considered as important to the ontopolitics of education and the predominance of western metaphysics in shaping thinking. The case of the global university is outlined, indicating the global political significance of powerful institutions that regulate the production of official knowledge that exerts an increasing global authority. The metaphysical dimension of global politics is then addressed, followed by a brief historical perspective on globalization and its contemporary form as the political legacy and continuation of colonialism. The case of the paradigm institution, the school, is considered in its global political dimension. Globalization and education are considered ontologically, in relation to the political structure of the contemporary World.
