New technologies, economic structures, and cultural forms are enacting dramatic transformations in social relations around the globe. While these transformations affect every place in the world, they do not make every place the same. The particulars of place and history give global institutions and processes their determinate shape. They revive and renew ancient enmities, while at the same time generating new forms of social organization and identification.
These new circumstances demand new ways of knowing inside and outside the academy. By looking at the unpredictable creativity of contemporary artists, intellectuals, and activists we can discern the outlines of epistemologies and analyses to arm us appropriately for the problems we face in this emerging world.

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