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Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements

Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth... boundary 2 28:2, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duke University Press. boundary 2 / Summer 2001 ecological on the global. Globalism is registered as a moment. The end or the beginning of history, the omnipresent figure of simultaneity—the Lexus and the olive tree—and the related threat of belatedness—are we global enough?—are among its temporal registers.1 Globalism’s emergence as a problematic 2—a philosophical or political problem on which one must take a position that newly orients knowledge, cultural, theoretical, and narrative production—can also be read as a sign of the supersession of the global as space. Indeed, an Aufhebung of the material/spatial has become a cliché of boosterist globalism’s ad copy. Disintermediation is the corporate goal: the erasure of distance through communicational, media, or distribution-system breakthroughs. We are said to be witnessing, to mix the temporal and the spatial in the logic of Francis Fukuyama’s thesis, the end of space.3 This has created some political and analytical difficulties. Concepts such as region, place, and the local emerge as counterglobalities, material fixities in the global-temporal swirl. But from what position, from what place, would a global thought articulate itself? From where would the global represent itself? As English and comparative http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press
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0190-3659
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1527-2141
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10.1215/01903659-28-2-173
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boundary 2 28:2, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Duke University Press. boundary 2 / Summer 2001 ecological on the global. Globalism is registered as a moment. The end or the beginning of history, the omnipresent figure of simultaneity—the Lexus and the olive tree—and the related threat of belatedness—are we global enough?—are among its temporal registers.1 Globalism’s emergence as a problematic 2—a philosophical or political problem on which one must take a position that newly orients knowledge, cultural, theoretical, and narrative production—can also be read as a sign of the supersession of the global as space. Indeed, an Aufhebung of the material/spatial has become a cliché of boosterist globalism’s ad copy. Disintermediation is the corporate goal: the erasure of distance through communicational, media, or distribution-system breakthroughs. We are said to be witnessing, to mix the temporal and the spatial in the logic of Francis Fukuyama’s thesis, the end of space.3 This has created some political and analytical difficulties. Concepts such as region, place, and the local emerge as counterglobalities, material fixities in the global-temporal swirl. But from what position, from what place, would a global thought articulate itself? From where would the global represent itself? As English and comparative

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