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from walter benjamin to the end of cinema
lives on an exchange, which comprises of everything from food and drinks
to the educational services, and of course, the flow of capital, which with
its first looming crisis of the global economy is becoming somewhat prob-
lematic. The signifying elements within these global exchanges are precise-
ly different identities, which could be illustrated in an immense number of
culturally marked items. It looks as if the notion of identity deprived of its
elusiveness, and fixed as the supposedly most basic cultural category, is in-
creasingly used as a counter-concept for a mobilisation against the plural-
ity of the global intercultural influences. The politics of identity represents
the potential of post-modern hegemony, which may become dangerous in
some political profiles such as the simulacrum of fascist politics. Luckily, it
appears that the stressing of such fixed identities tending to exclude any-
body who refuses to be “included” brings forth the dispersing tendency of
the politics of difference. Hegemony as a tool of democracy in a Gramscian
sense, served well to open the minds of modernity.
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lives on an exchange, which comprises of everything from food and drinks
to the educational services, and of course, the flow of capital, which with
its first looming crisis of the global economy is becoming somewhat prob-
lematic. The signifying elements within these global exchanges are precise-
ly different identities, which could be illustrated in an immense number of
culturally marked items. It looks as if the notion of identity deprived of its
elusiveness, and fixed as the supposedly most basic cultural category, is in-
creasingly used as a counter-concept for a mobilisation against the plural-
ity of the global intercultural influences. The politics of identity represents
the potential of post-modern hegemony, which may become dangerous in
some political profiles such as the simulacrum of fascist politics. Luckily, it
appears that the stressing of such fixed identities tending to exclude any-
body who refuses to be “included” brings forth the dispersing tendency of
the politics of difference. Hegemony as a tool of democracy in a Gramscian
sense, served well to open the minds of modernity.
44
