The Stylish design of globalisation

Liam Dee

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    Abstract

    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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMobile boundaries/rigid worlds
    Subtitle of host publicationproceedings of the 2nd annual conference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
    EditorsMichael Fine, Nicholas Smith, Amanda Wise
    Place of PublicationSydney
    PublisherCentre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Print)1741380472
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    EventConference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (2nd : 2004) - North Ryde, NSW
    Duration: 27 Sept 200428 Sept 2004

    Conference

    ConferenceConference of the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion (2nd : 2004)
    CityNorth Ryde, NSW
    Period27/09/0428/09/04

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