Globalization, the politics of identity and social hope
by Richard Rorty

Rorty discsusses the loss of faith in the ieda of a uiversal global culture resulting from the failure of the Maxirst and non-maxist scernarios for utopian global classless society. There has been a shift away from a historical narrative and utopian dreams toward a philosophy and such poics as identity, difference, self subject, truth and reason. He talks of this kind of philosophy as being relevent to politics because it encourages people to have a self-image where democracy is central to that belief. This anti-authoritarian philosphy allows peopple to set aside diffferences in identity to allow for the idea of an image of global human adventure. This seems to me to be just as uptopian as what has come before just adiifferent way of thinking about it it still is tied to an idea of progress and an ideal golbal culture.

Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
by Arjun Appadurai

Appadurai discuuses the way we as people, our information and technology and money are moved around the world. These are talked about in different scapes, ethnoscapes, technoscapes, financscapes, mediascapes, and ideoscapes which is the model of global cultural flow. The resulting lanscapes create by the disunctures between these different flows is what is of interest to Appadurai.
What interests me anout this article is the discussion of the media and how it is received by different people around the world and that the lines bewtween the ficxtional landscapes that we see is blurred leading to the construction of imagined worlds. I thin this is interesting in terms of how we may imagine a place or thing to be and because we may be so far removed from the actual experience of the thing that we create a sudo reality of our own in our minds that holds ony small bits of reality within it. Imagine then what a fragmented world our world becomes in the minds of so many diverse people all over the world. It is these samnesses and differences among people and the flow s of these scapes that create the radical disjunstures in the landscape that Appadurai is discussing.