Abstract

The concept of mediation is crucial to the structure of cosmopolitanism understood as a perspective whereby one sees oneself as a member of a world. This article examines the mediatic structure of cosmopolitanism by discussing two different philosophical models of this structure in Kant's and Hegel's philosophies of world history. It then considers what happens to this structure in contemporary global political economy by looking at a series of news events concerning the People's Republic of China in 2008 (the riots in Tibet, the Sichuan earthquake and the various events surrounding the Beijing Olympics). It concludes with some thoughts on the virtualization of power and the role of business journalism, as illustrated by the assessment of US sovereign credit by ratings agencies in 2011.

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