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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: The Digital Global Condition -- Introduction -- Digital Challenges and the Pervasive Impact on Global Affairs -- Our Long Digital Tail -- References -- 2: The Imagined Latent Zone: How the Myth of Cultural Authenticity Survived the Covid-19 Lockdowns -- Introduction -- Cultural Authenticity: Scholarly Critiques Versus Popular Realities -- Integrative Relations, Digital Technology and Disembodiment -- Space, Place and the Imagined Latent Zone -- A Few Stories -- Disney's 'Encanto' -- FIFA World Cup in Russia -- Hilaria Baldwin as Cultural Imposter -- YouTube Accents at Home -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Disruptive Technologies and New Threat Multipliers -- Introduction -- Drones: The Precursory Driver -- Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS): The Intensifying Dimension -- Debates in the Discourse -- Cyber Security: The Porosity of Threats -- Artificial Intelligence: The Accelerator -- Futuristic Technologies: There Is No End in Sight -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Digital 'Natives': Unsettling the Colony Through Digital Technology -- Introduction -- Indigenous Public Spheres -- 'Recognition' in the Australian Constitution -- Bla(c)k Lives Matter -- The Implications of Digital Intensification -- Conclusion: Digital Solidarities -- References -- 5: Dangerous Misogyny of the Digital World: The Case of the Manosphere -- Introduction -- The Nature of Online Spaces -- Swallowing the Red Pill -- Men's Rights Activists (MRA) -- Pick-up Artists (PUA) -- Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) -- Incels -- The Danger of the Manosphere -- Unsafe Digital Spaces -- Online Misogynistic Radicalisation -- Translation of Online Violent Rhetoric to Real World Violence -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Technology and Lawyering: On Legal Practice and Value in a Digital Age.

This book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international, national, social and personal levels. The Digital Global Condition examines the nature of digital globalization, enabling us to not only inhabit a digital world, but also to understand it, even to live well in it. Elizabeth Kath is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT University, Australia. Thematically, she is interested in how people traverse boundaries of difference in the global era, including theories of migration, intercultural communication, reconciliation, and social inclusion/exclusion. Regionally, she specialises in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the editor of Australian-Latin American Relations: New Links in A Changing Global Landscape (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Julian C. H. Lee is an Associate Professor in Global Studies at RMIT University, Australia. He is the author and co-author of several books including Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for our Critical Condition (2019) and editor of several volumes including Narratives of Globalization: Reflections on the Global Condition (2016). Aiden Warren is Professor in Politics and International Relations at RMIT University, Australia. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of international security, US national security and foreign policy, US politics, great power politics, issues associated with weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation, non-proliferation, arms control, and emerging technologies. He is the co-author of US Foreign Policy and China (2021), Understanding Presidential Doctrines (2022), and editor of Global Security in an Age of Crisis (2023).

This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically informed anthropology. Lewis' work on the Ata Tana 'Ai (People of the Forest) of Flores has long been regarded as a seminal work on culture and society in Eastern Indonesia. His 'precedence theory' became highly influential among anthropologists in their interpretations of other social groups in the region. In this volume, however, a group of scholars influenced by his work undertake diverse and thought-provoking excursions from Lewis' work, shedding light on his insights on subjects ranging from Eastern Indonesian ethnography, to theorizing culture change, to development, and to the nascent field of 'neuroanthropology'. Of particular note, this book also features an extended contribution by Lewis that is, as Professor James J. Fox notes in this book's foreword, 'the kind of serious contemplation of an intellectual trajectory that every senior anthropologist should be urged to write'