globalisation not accurate term, but “anthropocene”

the local doesnt function as a form of resistance

the local is itslef constituted by forces that are not local
border itself is in transition

changing notions of the borders , as something that has to be crossed over is now sth very weak
refugee crisis, the border itself its not clear where it is, where it is hapenning

we cant use familiar notions of the local for resistance, because it is something very unstable

Alex Wlliams - Against the “Local”

book: “inventing the future” Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
GET THIS BOOK!!!!

critically asses what we mean by the local

“THE LOCAL” - localism
in the 2998 financial crisis, a lot of people talkig about THE LOCAL (from different areas: the
economics, aesthetically , politically, etc)
the local as a transpolitical ideology, it is authentic, virtuous, politically radical

1) The local as ideological object

a) right wing political localism

david cameron
big society concept, big communities more powers

b) left wing political localism - action should be taken directly instead of through mediating
processes, privileges spacial-temporal immediacy
economic localism (global banking system has become irredeemable corrupt ), new initiatives: like
a kind of currency which is valid within a spacial locality, and that kind of money is only circulating
within that local community aesthetics of it: LOCAL FOOD, vast movement towards food ,
consumption aesthetics on food, loca food, sow food, Locavorism (eating locally), the 100miles diet
(only eat food from a 100 miles from where you are), it gets you back in touch with nature and
community
there is this idea that the 100 mile diet is helping fight climate change
in essence that this food localist movement we are gonna

Artistic localism: site specific art

ideosincratic specifictity of places , against the homogenisation of globalisation

THe problem with LOCALISM

the local is democratic, authentic, its easy to understand, attractable to thought and action, is
familiar,
right wing political localism: Duplicitious
privatisation, promise of decentralisation

left wing political localism: ineffective?

economic localism: ignores structural, global issues

site specific art: complicit with global capitalism?

3) rethinking the local

simple binaries: local/global

whats going on with the local
distinguish between localism or decentralisation
question of physical and cognitive constraints,
question of SCALE in reation to the local

estoy muy caliente

formal ideas of the global and the local