ABSTRACT

I will address here the Special Forum leading question: ‘Is an integrated theory of globalization possible (and desirable)?’ I will add: is it necessary? If it is, what for and for whom is it necessary and beneficial? I have no illusion of providing a convincing answer to the Special Forum’s leading questions and my own additions. But I am writing this essay with another question in mind, asked in the introduction to Globalization Matters, the book that prompted this Special Forum: What is happening to globalization? I hope to provide some entrypoint into those questions, starting from the receiving ends because there are many, of globalization. What I mean by this is that while modern/colonial world order was constituted by actors, institutions and languages located in the mutation of Western Christendom to continental Europe and its extension to the US, thus forming the North Atlantic, all the remaining regions and people in the planet became, by default, receptors (by will or in spite of) of Western global designs. Chief among them is global linear thinking that contributed greatly to mapping the contours of the Westernization of the World and set up the foundations of what, in neo-liberal vocabulary since the 1980s, has been termed ‘globalization’.

摘要

我将在这里讨论特别论坛的主要问题：“全球化的综合理论是否可能（并且是可取的）？” 我将补充：是否有必要？如果是，那么什么是必要的，对谁又是有益的呢？对于特殊论坛的主要问题和我自己的补充，我没有幻想给出令人信服的答案。但是我在撰写这篇文章时会想到另一个问题，这在《全球化问题》的简介中曾问过，促使该特别论坛的书：全球化正在发生什么？我希望为这些问题提供一些切入点，从全球化的接收端开始，因为存在许多全球化。我的意思是，尽管现代/殖民地世界秩序是由位于西方基督教世界向欧洲大陆及其延伸到美国，从而形成北大西洋，其余所有地区和人民的参与者，机构和语言构成的默认情况下，地球上的卫星成为（无论是否有意的）西方全球设计的接受者。其中最主要的是全球线性思维，它为绘制世界西方化的轮廓做出了巨大贡献，并为自1980年代以来新自由主义词汇中被称为“全球化”的事物奠定了基础。