Transnational Digital Imaginaries

Currently, much debate over the concepts of the transnational and the national has arise as the new world media order reshapes the globe (Time Warner/CNN, ABC/Capital Cities, Bertellsman). Simultaneously, nationalist passions (see the Amnesty International web site, http://www.amnesty.org/) dismember its Others in brutal ways (Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, China, Kosova, Chiapas). 2 Zillah Eisenstein traces how globalization rethreads ethnic violence into a gendered and racialized hatred that is fueled by cannibalizing its others, a fantasmatic End Page 149 constructions of otherness. 3 (See Axis of Life web site, http://lois.kud-fp.si/quantum.east/text.html).