Global integration operates on rhythms set by industrialized nations

Evidence

Industrialized nations have long beat time for this precipitousness, determining its speed and giving rhythm to trends, through the control they exert over modes of power and means of communication. The situation worldwide “integrates” cultures becoming exhausted by this speed and others that are stuck somewhere offby themselves. The latter are kept in a state of sluggish, passive receptivity in which fantasies of spectacular development and overwhelming consumption remain fantasies. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 882

Categorization

• XREF: Glissant’s account of globalizing speed and peripheral passivity parallels dependence-theory and world-systems claims already familiar from the Frankfurt School corpus. — connects to: Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292; Western industrialization actively deindustrialized the rest of the world — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234; Formal decolonization gave way to a neo-imperial global economic order — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 315 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Integration into global capitalism reinforces, not relieves, the periphery’s subordination #corroborates (0.90) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 292
• Western industrialization actively deindustrialized the rest of the world #corroborates (0.85) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234
• Formal decolonization gave way to a neo-imperial global economic order #corroborates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 315
• Global corporations realize the capitalist dream of one integrated world market #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1453
• Capitalism’s global operation takes distinct nationally-specific forms across Asia and Africa #qualifies (0.70) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 470