There is a new politics to be discovered in the et. It will be dimensionless and without polarities. In other words, as with aesthetics, the apparitional and emergent will replace the sophistry of appearance and surface. With the globalisation of finance, we must remember that an estimated S l000 billion dollars a day moves across the exchanges. The ten largest transnational corporations each produce more now than 87 of the world's nation states.
Factories go up wherever labour is cheapest.
In real terms the nation state, and its petty politicking, counts for very little any more. Culturally, a multi-layered universe of values is emerging. The pyramids of power are inverting, not from any ideological or politically correct invocations, but because the erstwhile passive consumer is now, increasingly, a user of cyberspace, interacting purposively with the Net. New economic structures will necessarily develop, just as new communities will be needed to accommodate the new transhuman technologies. In all this ferment of change, the question is not whether art has a place in the telematicised world but whether art might be the Vehicle to take us to new conceptions of individual identity, new levels of consciousness, and new notions of community.