Introduction. Beyond Globalization, and the Drift of the Political
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36253/rifp-4462Keywords:
globalization, drift, global, planetary, political categoriesAbstract
This thematic issue interrogates the crisis of globalization as both a material and conceptual framework, arguing that the present conjuncture can be grasped neither through the narrative of a borderless integrated world nor through that of deglobalization. The article proposes the drift as a critical practice of orientation in a world marked by multipolar tensions, ecological breakdown, and the collapse of inherited political categories. Thinking beyond globalization emerges not as a settled condition but as an open-ended critical and political task.
Downloads
References
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35, no. 2 (2009): 197–222. https://doi.org/10.1086/596640
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Debord, Guy. “Théorie de la dérive.” Les Lèvres Nues, no. 9 (1956). Reprinted in Guy Debord, Œuvres, 251–57. Paris: Gallimard, 2006.
Duso, Giuseppe. La logica del potere: Storia concettuale come filosofia politica. Milano: Polimetrica, 2007.
Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373780
Hardt, Michael, e Sandro Mezzadra. “Capital and the Global War Regime.” Portolan Journal, October 31, 2025. https://portolan-journal.org/?post=capital-and-the-global-war-regime.
Mitchell, W.J.T. “Iconology 3.0: Image Theory in Our Time.” New Theories, no. 1 (2019): 9–27.
Mitchell, W.J.T. “Planetary Madness: Globalizing the Ship of Fools,” in “Disassembled” Images: Allan Sekula and Contemporary Art, edited by Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019, pp. 21–37.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Serena Marcenò
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
