New World Order Or Neo-World Orders: Power, Politics and Ideology in Informationalizing Glocalities

Abstract

A scenario of postmodernity as dystopic hypermodernity is offered. The new world order of (modern) nation-states is seen as being replaced by a set of neo-world orders in today's postmodernity of global flows. The thesis is that there is: a shift from a realist new world order of nation-states to hyperrealist neo-world orders of global flows; & a shift from real politics carried out by nation-states in historical space to one of hyperreal politics carried out by sub- & supranational collective actors in posthistorical cyberspace. Aesthetic realism, ie, Renaissance perspectival space & single point perspective, is paradigmatic in the modern nation-state order. It is the state that is doing the painting. The state as illustrator paints in the sovereignty in the new world order. This nation-state exogenizes conflict & endogenizes discipline. The informationalized neo-world orders consist of the replacement of national organizations by global flows in the familiar set of media-, techno-, info-, & finanscapes. This new global & eminently disorganized capitalism should be understood in terms of Jean Baudrillard's hyperrealism. 26 References. V. Rios