Peace, the Museum, and Globalization, 1800/2014

Abstract

Jacques Derrida’s sustained analysis of globalization[1] carries three main insights that are important starting points for this essay. Firstly, against the abundant rhetoric surrounding globalization, the vapid determinism and blind and fabricated faith in liberal economics, and the sense of wondrous awe often exuded before seemingly immediate communication, Derrida is very clear about what globalization is not. In his 2003 book, Philosophy in a Time of Terror, he addresses the mistaken notion that global integration produces democracy, which, in turn, yields increasing equality.