Responsibility In Context: Perspectives
by Gorana Ognjenovic /
2009 / English / PDF
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Arne Johan Vetlesen Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is expanding pressing a key, I can immediately reach persons living in another continent products travel across the world to the store just around the corner from me thanks to modern media, I am cognisant of events taking place right now thousands of kilometers away. The world is expanding in the sense that yesterdays time-space limits are rendered irrelevant my communications, my needs, my aspirations, transcend all such givens. Whatever confronts me as part of my here-and-now, as making up my present contextuality, I can and will easily transcend and leave it behind. That the world is expanding means I am expanding, insofar as my range of action, my horizon for thinking, indeed for existing, is perpetually expanding. Expansion as such is forever-happening it is without limits. This is what we are being told about the nature of globalisation. It rings true or more to the point, it sounds trivial. But perhaps it is neither. Lets make a new start. Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is shrinking. It is becoming smaller and smaller. It imposes itself upon me, wherever I go, whatever I undertake to do. It exerts all kinds of pressure from all kinds of directions, on all kinds of levels: psychologically no less than physically.
