The Stylish design of globalisation

Liam Dee

The Stylish design of globalisation

Liam Dee

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This paper examines the way the very design of everyday products manifests the fluid imagination of globalisation as described by Hardt and Negri. This vision, hailed by the boosters of ‘free markets’, is of a smooth planet of de-territorialised flows, where exchange is unhindered by regulation. Through a critical aesthetic methodology, I will be arguing that there is more than just metaphorical equivalence between the smoothness of lifestyle commodities and the smoothness of larger globalisation, and that this can expose the contradictions between the alluring uncoded flows of commodity consumption and the reality of flows, often still very coded, of commodity production.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mobile boundaries/rigid worlds
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 2nd annual conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
Editors	Michael Fine, Nicholas Smith, Amanda Wise
Place of Publication	Sydney
Publisher	Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	1741380472
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (2nd : 2004) - North Ryde, NSW Duration: 27 Sept 2004 → 28 Sept 2004

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Conference	Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (2nd : 2004)
City	North Ryde, NSW
Period	27/09/04 → 28/09/04

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Dee, L 2005, The Stylish design of globalisation. in M Fine, N Smith & A Wise (eds), Mobile boundaries/rigid worlds: proceedings of the 2nd annual conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Sydney, Conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (2nd : 2004), North Ryde, NSW, 27/09/04. <http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/publications/conference_proceedings/>

The Stylish design of globalisation. / Dee, Liam.
Mobile boundaries/rigid worlds: proceedings of the 2nd annual conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion. ed. / Michael Fine; Nicholas Smith; Amanda Wise. Sydney: Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, 2005.

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