How can culture and
subjectivity not be transformed, when opened to the vicissitudes of this vaster
landscape and population which is globalization itself? No longer
protected by family or region, nor even by the nation itself and its national
identity, the emergence of the vulnerable subject into a world of billions of
anonymous equals is bound to bring about still more momentous changes in human
reality. The experience of singularity is, on this level, the very expression
of this subjective destitution, one so often remedied by the regression into
older group or religious structures, or the invention of pseudo-traditional
ethnic identities, with results ranging from genocide to luxury hobbies. This
dialectic, between egoism and pseudo-collectivity, carries within it at least
one moment of truth, namely the radical differentiation—qualitative,
ontological and methodological alike—between the analysis of individual
experience and that of groups or collectivities. Both kinds of analysis share
the dilemma of bearing on an imaginary object, one whose unity is impossible
and whose stubborn endurance demands, on the one hand, a new ethic, and on the
other a new politics. To project either of these impossible tasks is Utopian;
to refuse them is frivolous and nihilistic. But it is the political dilemma we
must face in conclusion.
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