ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes the features of emergent globality and their formative practices through attention to three empirical domains or sites; each conceived so as to be broadly illustrative of recognizable fields involving the interaction of human agency and indifferent technologies in complex social constitution. Actors retreat from the goal of moral community founded on communicative competence to the abject status of victims of, or supine audiences for, culture as spectacle and (post-truth) politics as habitual and stylized lying. The Internet and the World Wide Web are inscription technologies of planetary scope, shaping the temper of everyday life, the conduct of politics and governance and the production and circulation of values. Digital architectures constitute one of the strands that comprise her "new geographies of power", inscribed – if that is not a contradiction in terms – in the rootless or "footloose" nature of all manner of social interactions.
