postnationalism / post nation state

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

to choose from. This would mean, most immediately, rethinking classic leftist demands in light of the most advanced technologies. It would mean building upon the post-nation-state territory of ‘the stack’ – that global infrastructure that enables our digital world today.26 A new type of production is already visible at the leading

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett  · 12 Jun 2017  · 390pp  · 109,870 words

libertarian thought: polycentric legal systems that live alongside each other and even compete with each other. ‘I want to talk about my vision for a post–nation state,’ she explained. ‘I believe nation states are going away. The only thing we can do is make sure it happens in the right way. The

Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

by Benjamin Barber  · 20 Apr 2010  · 454pp  · 139,350 words

feel more and more uncomfortable.13 Robert Kuttner reports that the state-of-the-art handle for the postindustrial company—which clearly is also the post—nation-state company—is “the virtual corporation” where “the company is no longer a physical entity with a stable mission or location, but a shifting set of

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vibrant civil society where responsibilities and rights are joined together in a seamless web of community self-government. At the same time, democracy demands new post-nation-state institutions and new attitudes more attentive to the direct responsibility people bear for their liberties. To be sure, global government, above all democratic global government

The Social Life of Money

by Nigel Dodd  · 14 May 2014  · 700pp  · 201,953 words

take on the difficult—because it is inherently speculative—task of developing a conceptual vocabulary for describing economic, social, political, and cultural forms in a post–nation-state era in order to address what kind of society this would be, what major forms of association will emerge, and how questions such as law

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities

by Eric Kaufmann  · 24 Oct 2018  · 691pp  · 203,236 words

the words of the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, Canada is a completely new society with ‘no core identity [and] no mainstream’. The country is a ‘post-national state’, he told The New York Times.24 Trudeau’s attempt to elevate Canada as the leading exemplar of left-modernism is similar to Iran or

Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia

by Ray Taras  · 15 Dec 2009  · 267pp  · 106,340 words

0.454 kg of Apples and Not 1 lb?” Daily Mail, February 26, 1995. Transnationalism goes hand in hand with postnationality. The first presumes the erosion of nationally anchored identity. Postnationality seems conceivable only in circumstances under which transnational identity has spread. Balibar put it this way: “if we are justified in

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 May 2020  · 393pp  · 91,257 words

from several European countries, titled “A Europe We Can Believe In,” says that the EU bureaucracy is invested in an “ersatz religious enterprise” based on postnationalism and the rejection of a distinct, historical culture in favor of multiculturalism.30 Given the high-level commitment to cultural deconstruction in Western societies, it

After Europe

by Ivan Krastev  · 7 May 2017  · 100pp  · 31,338 words

the vast reaches of the Muslim world, makes clear that both ethnic nationalism and religion remain major driving forces in global politics. Europe’s postmodernism, postnationalism, and secularism make it different from the rest of the world, not a harbinger of what necessarily awaits it. What is also visible in the

Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

by William McGowan  · 16 Nov 2010  · 316pp  · 91,969 words

—not nationalism or jingoism, but patriotism—is certainly a factor too, along with an agenda to deconstruct the idea of citizenship. At the Times, cosmopolitan postnationalism trumps the traditional notion of American community, and “the cult of ethnicity” that Arthur Schlesinger warned about in The Disuniting of America has overshadowed the

Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 30 Jun 2004  · 329pp  · 102,469 words

it clear which is meant. Return to text. *3 The evolution of that profound thinker is curious: here is the intellectual high priest of German postnationalism and “constitutional patriotism” now pleading for an emotional identification with Europe, presented as distinct and superior to America, in a fashion strongly reminiscent of the

Collaborative Futures

by Mike Linksvayer, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv  · 24 Aug 2010  · 188pp  · 9,226 words