Nothing critically or politically is happening there. It is fun to read - that's the end of the story. But I do not want to deny that. It documents certain currents of life. I do not want to kick anybody, but I think that the combination of political economy and history, in combination with cultural studies, is absolutely essential.
Globalization is only a buzz word.
That is still unclear. But without these other elements and their explanatory power, including anthropology, we are losing the context. Coming home and talking about cultural studies is kind of weird. We are writing in newspapers and one could call that cultural criticism. In fact, in the East-Asian context, cultural studies has a long literary tradition.