Abstract
Bandied about in the media with the ease of fax messages, “globalization” is poised to become a slogan. There hardly exists a public topic, ranging from Patrick Buchanan’s campaign in the 1996 primaries to Al Gore’s arterial metaphor of information as highway, from debates in education to the furor about immigration, from the mass strikes in France in 1995 to the conflicts over NAFTA, that cannot somehow or other be related to globalization. In a certain respect, the concept was already a cliché before it entered discussions in the humanities. In the name of globalization, people are enjoined to pull up their socks or tighten their belts; to open up their borders or close them; to celebrate the equivocality of the hybrid or the predictability of the Heimat. A protean term if there was ever one, globalization expresses our fears and hopes as we draw nearer to the grim shadow of the third millennium.
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