The Fall of the Post-Industrial, Post-Global, Post-Colonial World

The essay presents the dynamics of what we call "new globalization," a second stage of the emergence of a new regime, which, as a result of capital's need to continuously find new frontiers of accumulation, is extending to countries previously considered as residual peripheries. It analyzes cultural diplomacy and university education as two tools used to manage power and reproduce class divisions now designed by an economic meritocratic system of global intellectual creative elites locally circumscribed and globally connected