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"What is astro-culture? In The Babylonian Planet it is unfolded as an aesthetic, an idea, a field of study, a position, and a practice. It helps to engineer the shift from a world view that is segregated to one that is integrated - from global to planetary; from distance to intimacy and where closeness and cosmic distance live side-by-side. In this tour de force, Sonja Neef takes her cue from Edouard Glissant's vision of multilingualism and reignites the myth of the Tower of Babel to anticipate new forms of cultural encounter. For her, Babel is an organic construction site at which she fuses theoretical analysis and case studies of artists, writers and thinkers like William Kentridge, Orhan Pamuk and Immanuel Kant. Her skilful interrogations then allow her to paint a portrait of art and culture that abolishes the horizon as a barrier to vision and reclaims it as a place of contact and relation. By combining the Babylonian concept of the encounter and the planetary concept of the whole-earth, Neef creates a space - an astro-culture - in which she can examine topics as varied as language, translation, media, modernity, migration and the moon. In doing so, she instigates a renewed cultural understanding receptive to the kinder forms of cultural encounter and globalisation she hopes will come"--

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization. The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to debates about social and cultural modernity. At the heart of the book is a far-reaching analysis of the complex, ambiguous ""lived experience"" of global modernity. Tomlinson argues that we ca

The changes and scale of globalization are underway to grow gradually, those economic, social, political, cultural and environmental aspects are continuous to be affected by this social process and influence almost everyone and everything. The world is experiencing mostly on the effects of commerce and government. As economic power increases, there exists a corresponding tension that compels policymakers to face new challenges and opportunities that arise from the current global economic system, as well as providing a response and contingency plan to the public. However, as local culture is influenced by the rapid development of global culture, discussions between culture and globalization remain fewer compared to those in political and economic spheres. However, cultural globalization has expanded on several problems, such as cultural homogenization, cultural imperialism, national identity, and popular culture threats. This study aims to observe the impacts of globalization on culture which include two main issues, how globalization accelerates global homogenization, and why countries retain different cultures despite scholarly arguments that cultural homogenization is an inevitability. Lots of academic and scientific journals as foundation for pursuing evidence and summarizing explanation. Secondary research has been used for more comprehensive perspectives regarding the relation between globalization and culture. By applying iceberg theory, cultural homogenization mostly occur on the tip of iceberg, 90% culture elements hidden under iceberg are hard to be altered or disappeared. As a result, cultural heterogenization is more proper to describe the status of world, people keep unique feature of cultures but also remain close connections due to the impact globalization. ; submitted by Tzu Hua Wang ; Universität Linz, Masterarbeit, 2020 ; (VLID)5392484