Saskia Sassen
George Soros
Anita Sieff
Ronald. M. Bosrock
Slavoj Žižek
Umberto Galimberti
Francesco Antinucci
Timothy Druckrey
Marina Gržinić
Rudi Rizman
Carlos Basualdo
John Peter Nilsson
Olu Oguibe
Irwin
Mika Hannula
Jordan Crandall
Eda Čufer
Aleš Erjavec
Nataša Petrešin
Mark Amerika
  Viktor Misiano
 
 

"My Cosy Global

1. The positive quality of globalisation is that in the search for the Centre you are not obliged any more to leave your home. You do not have to "leave for Paris" or "leave for New-York" as you did before. Thanks to the new technological and social possibilities you can be global at home - in Moscow or in Ljubljana.

2. At the same time as "global" or "central" at home - in Moscow or in Ljubljana - you can avoid being drowned by local or provincial (to say it in the old fashioned way) narrow-mindness, dogmatism, personal envies and intrigues. Your belonging to the Global would protect you, Global would give you a distance and independence.

3. The more you are approaching Global and becoming familiar with it - the more you are discovering that Global is structured as something local. It is represented by closed circles of people where you can find the same narrow-mindness, dogmatism, personal envies and intrigues. In this case your belonging to the Local - to Moscow or toLjubljana - would protect you, would give you a distance and independence.

4. That balancing in between Global and Local would give you a chance to build your self, to have you own way. Even more - and that is the most important - it gives you a chance to establish a system of transnational confidential connection - which is the reference and the final destination of your activity. That is, in fact, you own localised Global or globalised Local.

Moscow. 25 of March 2001