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Solomon, Jon. 2016. The Transnational Study of Culture and the Indeterminacy of People(s) and Language(s). In Bachmann-Medick, Doris, ed. The Trans/National Study of Culture: a translational perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 69–91.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English

Abstract

By remembering the indeterminacy of people(s) and language(s), people are called upon to develop not just a non-national, non-normative, and, finally, non-anthropological understanding of the past as well as the present and future. Intended here is a critique not just of national narrative but also of the fundamental assumptions about human collectivity and knowledge that have sustained the normativity of the nationalist project in all its forms. The changes envisioned are so far away from the national that it would really be better to place them under a non-national, rather than simply trans-national, heading. Otherwise, it is quite likely that this critique would simply serve the interests of the current ‘great transformation’ from an international system (based on nation-states) of industrial capitalism to an equally constricting transnational system (based on a global state) of cognitive capitalism.
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