ALTER-GLOBALIZATION AS A RIOT OF THE

(ALTER) EVERYDAY-MAN

Dimitar TrendafilovSoutheast-European Center for Semiotic Studies New Bulgarian University – Sofia trendafilov.dim@gmail.com

PhD Symposium - Thessaloniki - 04/02/2011

Ulrich Beck against Globalism It exports working positions from one country to another

It breaks up the processes of production

It puts the countries where the actual production runs under political manipulation

There is differentiation and even confrontation between the place where the capital is invested and the place where the taxes are paid

Globalism destroys the fundamental difference between the realm of economics and that of politics.

Manuel Castells about the Network

The network society is dependent on the computer literacy and the consumerism

Nowadays the information is not just a tool for material production, rather it is a product itself

The system leis on network paradigm and increasing complexity of the connections

Due to the technologies people are able to work with and to distribute bigger volume of symbols than ever before

Familiar “faces”

New Heroes

Thank you for your attention!