quinta-feira, 24 de janeiro de 2013

What word could replace “globalization”?


“Globalization” was one of the paradigmatic words in the apex of postmodern era.
It was a word carried with strong attractive almost magic meaning, suggesting a kind of “economic peace”, “end of poverty”, etc., although some movements opposed to it.
Now, in a crisis since 2008, what could be the meaning of “globalization”? Could it be “unemployment”?
Postmodern was an “efficient” time…
Is after-postmodern an “inefficient” time?
As Thomas Kuhn said about scientific paradigms, the time of a scientific paradigm is ending when it cannot answer questions or find solutions to problems.
Under this thought we could say that the postmodern paradigms are over…
People are running in circles trying to find solutions using overcome paradigms, overcome concepts that seems to be still efficient, because society is still working in several issues despite the crisis…
Maybe it is necessary to find the new paradigms… Maybe it could come from several different fields beyond economy, although together with economy…