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Immanuel Wallerstein,
“Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern
World-System”; “Culture is the World-System. A Reply to Boyne”; Roy
Boyne, “Culture and the World-System”
This short polemics about “the global culture” gives an excellent insight into the ideological premises, which grounds the contemporary understanding of culture. Wallerstein arguments are deeply based in his leftist critique on the world capitalist system and the neoliberal expansion. Wallerstein differs two concepts underlining culture. Culture as a set of features distinguishing one group from the other; and culture as a set of features distinguishing two phenomena within same group. He makes a critical survey on how the concepts were used throughout history but also in the contemporary capitalist world system. Boyn accuses Wallerstein for ideological blindness and binary logic. He opposed this view arguing that the notion of culture is much more complex and it requires more diverse approached. Wallerstein replies fiercefully.
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