Arjun Appadurai

The global is not a single order, but a dynamic disorder.

The global is not a single system, but a complex adaptive system.

The global is not a single totality, but a fractured whole.

The global is not a single center, but a decentered network.

The global is not a single periphery, but a set of interconnected peripheries.

The global is not a single hierarchy, but a heterarchy of relations.

The global is not a single equilibrium, but a state of constant flux.

The global is not a single end, but an ongoing becoming.

The global is not a single beginning, but a continuous emergence.

The global is not a single answer, but a perpetual question.

Globalization is not a flat world, but a world of flows where cultural imaginations shape the contours of power.

The imagination is now a key component of the new global order, linking the electronic and the popular.

Ethnoscapes are the landscapes of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live.

Mediascapes are the repertoires of images and narratives that shape our understanding of the world.

Technoscapes refer to the global configuration of technologies that move across borders.

Financescapes are the landscapes of global capital flows that defy national boundaries.

Ideoscapes are the landscapes of ideas of states and counter-states.

Things have social lives, much like people, and their biographies reveal the workings of culture.

Commodities, like persons, have trajectories that illuminate social relations.

In a world of cultural flows, locality is not a fixed site but a structure of feeling.