And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this pro….

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies..

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides….

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film ….

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... wi….

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American….

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being….

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operati….

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achiev….

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination..

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of ….

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism..

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success ….

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think histori….

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the criti….

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutrali….

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the olde….