Culture and Globalization or The Humanities in Ruins.

As the range and number of books and articles exploring culture in the era of globalization should indicate, the concept of culture has undergone a significant change at the end of the twentieth and in the early twenty-first centuries, a shift that has necessitated new ways of thinking and writing about culture. Globalization names a new condition for culture that is related to the sudden dissolution of culture's boundaries and its increased global motility. And yet, the culture that is suddenly mobile and deterritorialized is still imagined largely in its old guise of human expressivity as something strangely unaffected by the hurly-burly of empirical social transformations, or as its opposite, the debased culture of mass culture, now imagined as disastrously writ large over the face of the entire globe, subsuming everything in its path.