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1 85 Reihe Politikwissenschaft Political Science Series Globalization: It s about Time too! Bob Jessop
3 85 Reihe Politikwissenschaft Political Science Series Globalization: It s about Time too! Bob Jessop January 2003 Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS), Wien Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
4 Contact: Bob Jessop Lancaster University : Founded in 1963 by two prominent Austrians living in exile the sociologist Paul F. Lazarsfeld and the economist Oskar Morgenstern with the financial support from the Ford Foundation, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, and the City of Vienna, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) is the first institution for postgraduate education and research in economics and the social sciences in Austria. The Political Science Series presents research done at the Department of Political Science and aims to share work in progress before formal publication. It includes papers by the Department s teaching and research staff, visiting professors, graduate students, visiting fellows, and invited participants in seminars, workshops, and conferences. As usual, authors bear full responsibility for the content of their contributions. Das Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) wurde im Jahr 1963 von zwei prominenten Exilösterreichern dem Soziologen Paul F. Lazarsfeld und dem Ökonomen Oskar Morgenstern mit Hilfe der Ford- Stiftung, des Österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Unterricht und der Stadt Wien gegründet und is t somit die erste nachuniversitäre Lehr- und Forschungsstätte für die Sozial- und Wirtschafts - wissenschaften in Österreich. Die Reihe Politikwissenschaft bietet Einblick in die Forschungsarbeit der Abteilung für Politikwissenschaft und verfolgt das Ziel, abteilungsinterne Diskussionsbeiträge einer breiteren fachinternen Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Die inhaltliche Verantwortung für die veröffentlichten Beiträge liegt bei den Autoren und Autorinnen. Gastbeiträge werden als solche gekennzeichnet.
5 Abstract Globalization here is understood to be a multicentric, multiscalar, multitemporal, multiform, and multicausal process, which has much less of an explanans and more of an explanandum. In recent analysis globalization has been found to be about place, space, and scale. Yet, following its title, this paper argues that it is about time too. In other words, globalization is also a spatio-temporal process. The nature of this process, its relation with the development of capitalist economies and the role of the state, are at the core of this paper. Zusammenfassung Globalisierung wird hier als Prozess verstanden mit vielfältigen Ursachen und Ausprägungen, mit zeitlichen und räumlichen Aspekten sowie einer polyzentrischen Natur. Dabei wird Globalisierung weniger als erklärendes, sondern vielmehr als zu erklärendes Phänomen gedeutet. In der gegenwärtigen sozialwissenschaftlichen Analyse wird Globalisierung in Zusammenhang mit örtlichen, räumlichen und skalaren Veränderungen gebracht. Wie der Titel dieses Papiers aber andeutet, handelt es sich ebenso um ein zeitbezogenes Phänomen: Globalisierung wird somit als räumlich-zeitlicher Prozess verstanden. Die Natur dieses Prozesses, seine Verbindungen mit der Entwicklung kapitalistischer Ökonomien und die Rolle des Staates werden im Fokus dieser Arbeit stehen. Keywords Keywords: Gobalization; Time; Space; Contemporary Capitalism; Role of the State; Schlagwörter Schlagwörter: Globalisierung; Zeit, Raum; Gegenwärtiger Kapitalismus; Rolle des Staates;
6 Comment This is the revised version of a public lecture delivered in Vienna in May I am grateful to Peter Biegelbauer and to Petra Purkarthofer for the invitation to give the lecture at the Institute for Political Science at the Vienna University.
7 Contents 1. Globalization 2 2. Globalization and the Spatial Turn 5 3. On Spatio-Temporal Fixes and the Contradictions of Capitalism 7 4. Spatio-Temporal Contradictions in Contemporary Capitalism The Implications of Globalization for (National) States Globalization, Time, and the State Conclusions Literature 21
9 I H S Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! 1 The title of this paper involves a deliberate play on words. It is also meant to make some serious theoretical and political points about the nature of globalization. It is certainly not about time that we begin to talk of globalization. On the contrary, the time is now well past when it first began to be seriously questioned. Indeed, for many commentators, it is high time that the concept of globalization was banned. Nor does the title indicate that strategies to promote globalization are overdue and that it is about time that the globalization project was taken further. Instead the title is intended to suggest that it is high time that we recognized both theoretically and politically that globalization is not just about place, space, and scale. It is about time too. Globalization is a phenomenon of a runaway world, of the annihilation of distance by time, of the increasing acceleration of social events and processes. And, to go further, it is a phenomenon that causes problems as much, if not more, because of its complex temporalities as it does because of its complex spatialities. In short, if we are to understand and control globalization, it is about time that we realized that it is a spatiotemporal process. In developing this argument, I first critique some recent simplified ideas about globalization, insisting on its many complexities and suggesting that the concept of globalization would be better seen as an explanandum than as an explanans. Second, building on the multicentric, multiscalar, and multitemporal features of globalization as well as the notions of time-space distantiation and time-space compression, I argue that the spatial turn involved in many recent discussions of globalization has been overdone and that it is time to combine it with a temporal (re)turn that can do justice to the complex spatio-temporalities of globalization. I illustrate this argument from Marx s work on the political economy of capitalism and, especially, his analysis of the spatio-temporal dynamics that are generated by its organization as an economy of time. Third, in this context I introduce the concept of spacetime and spatio-temporal fixes and draw out some of the theoretical implications of such fixes for understanding the nature and problems of globalization. Fourth, I explore some of the temporal contradictions of the current globalizing phase of a post-fordist, knowledge-based capitalism. Fifth, in the light of these remarks, I consider the implications of globalization for the national state, noting in particular the challenges to its temporal sovereignty. Here I consider the politics of time involved in globalization, the ways in which this challenges the national sovereign state and the practices of democratic politics, and then suggest some ways to address the acceleration of economic processes associated with the current wave of globalization. My reflections conclude with some general remarks on the importance of temporality to an understanding and critique of globalization.
10 2 Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! I H S 1. Globalization Globalization is a polyvalent, promiscuous, controversial word that often obscures more than it reveals about recent economic, political, social, and cultural changes. It is best used to denote a multicentric, multiscalar, multitemporal, multiform, and multicausal process. First, it is multicentric because it emerges from activities in many places rather than from a single centre. It cannot be reduced to Americanization, as some critics of American imperialism suggest, but emanates from many sites around the globe. Moreover, even if one were to insist against the evidence that it was primarily an American-initiated phenomenon, it would still be necessary to recognize the plurality of globalization processes and effects depending on whether one looked at American influences emanating from New York as a financial centre, Washington as an imperial city, Atlanta as a global news factory, Hollywood as an entertainment capital, Silicon Valley as the centre of informational capitalism, and so on. The same point would apply, of course, to the alleged centrality of other national formations. Second, globalization is multiscalar because it emerges from actions on many scales which can no longer be seen as nested in a neat hierarchy but as co-existing and interpenetrating in a tangled and confused manner and it develops and deepens the scalar as well as the spatial division of labour. This excludes any simple opposition between the global and the national or the global and the local. Indeed, in some ways, the global is little more than a hugely extended network of localities (Czarniawska and Sevón 1996: 22). More generally, what could be described from one vantagepoint as globalization might be redescribed (and, perhaps, more accurately) in rather different terms from one or more alternative scalar viewpoints: for example, as internationalization, triadization, regional bloc formation, global city network-building, cross-border region formation, international localization, glocalization, glurbanization, or transnationalization. For, regardless of their own distinctive dynamics, if any, each of these scalar processes is also linked more or less closely into the overall dynamic of globalization whether as modifying, counteracting, or reinforcing processes. Third, the latter dynamic is multitemporal because it involves an ever more complex restructuring and re-articulation of temporalities and time horizons. This aspect is captured in the notions of time-space distantiation and time-space compression. The former process involves the stretching of social relations over time and space so that relations can be controlled or co-ordinated over longer periods of time (including the ever more distant future) and longer distances, greater areas, or more scales of activity. The ultimate spatial horizon of time-space distantiation is, of course, total control over social relations on a fully integrated global scale into the foreseeable future. There are good reasons, however, to regard this ultimate horizon as implausible. The latter process involves the intensification of discrete
11 I H S Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! 3 events in real time and/or the increased velocity of material and immaterial flows over a given distance. This is also a significant (and also incompletely developed) aspect of globalization and, indeed, it is time-space compression more than time-space distantiation that is more distinctive of the most recent wave of globalization. If we examine the interaction between these two processes, it becomes evident that much of the fascination with globalization is rooted in the increased significance of social forces and processes that combine capacities for time-space distantiation and compression: the most obvious (in the sense of most cited) case is hypermobile financial capital that can circulate globally in real time. But focusing on such cases ignores the significance of other forces and processes that are located elsewhere in the two-dimensional property space that can be derived from using degrees of time-space distantiation and time-space compression as its respective horizontal and vertical axes. Fourth, globalization is multiform. It assumes different forms in different contexts and can be realized through different strategies neo-liberal globalization with its emphasis on the integration of the world market along neo-liberal lines is only one of these general forms and even this having several significant variants. Once one allows for other forms of technological and economic globalization and other sites and processes of globalization across different functional systems and the lifeworld (or civil society), then the multiformity of globalization appears even more strongly. Finally, globalization is clearly multicausal because it results from the complex, contingent interaction of many different causal processes. For, taken together, the preceding features mean that, far from globalization being a unitary causal mechanism, it should be understood as the complex, emergent product of many different forces operating on many scales. Hence nothing can be explained in terms of the causal powers of globalization let alone causal powers that are inevitable and irreversible and that are actualized on some intangible stage behind our backs or on some intangible plane above our heads. Instead globalizations themselves need explaining in all their manifold spatio-temporal complexity. This does not exclude specific hypotheses about the impact of clearly specifiable processes on particular sets of social relations. Thus one might be able to investigate the extent to which the increasing hypermobility of financial capital affects the capacities of national states to set real interest rates to secure full employment levels of demand. But one could not meaningfully investigate the wild and overgeneral claim that "globalization undermines the power of the state. This point highlights the more general point about the multicentric, multiscalar, multitemporal, and multiform nature of globalization. Moreover, once we understand how globalizing processes are generated and how they operate, we can better intervene in their production and better resist some of their effects. In spite of these arguments, it is still possible and worthwhile to reflect on the nature of globalization. But we must define globalization with all due caution and in ways that allow for the above-mentioned complexities. Thus I would propose here that globalization has both
12 4 Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! I H S structural and strategic moments. Structurally, it involves the objective processes whereby increasing global interdependence is created among actions, organizations, and institutions within (but not necessarily across) different functional systems (economy, law, politics, education, science, sport, etc.) and the lifeworld that lies beyond them. These processes occur on various spatial scales, operate differently in each functional subsystem, involve complex and tangled causal hierarchies rather than a simple, unilinear, bottom-up or topdown movement, and often display an eccentric nesting of the different scales of social organization. They also develop unevenly in spacetime. Nonetheless, globalization can be said to increase insofar as the co-variation of actions, events, and institutional orders involves more (and more important) relevant activities, is spatially more extensive, and occurs more rapidly. Strategically, globalization refers to conscious attempts to promote global co-ordination of activities in (but not necessarily across) different functional subsystems and/or in the lifeworld. This does not require that the actors involved are physically present at all points in the planet but only requires them to monitor relevant activities, communicate about these, and try to co-ordinate their activities with others to produce global effects. Such co-ordination efforts range from generalized meta-steering (constitutional or institutional design) intended to produce a more or less comprehensive global order through creation of international regimes to particularistic pursuit of specific economic-corporate interests within such (meta-) frameworks. There is clearly scope for wide variation here as shown by the neo-liberal, market-led globalization promoted by the World Bank, the horizontal global governance favoured by proponents (especially NGOs) of democratic international regimes, and plans for more top-down inter-statal government. Not all actors are (or could hope to be) major global players but many more have to monitor the global as a horizon of action, the implications of changing scalar divisions, and the impact of time-space distantiation and compression on their identities, interests, and strategies. The overall course of globalization will be the largely unintended, relatively chaotic outcome of interaction among various strategies to shape or resist globalization in a complex, path-dependent world society. It follows that any account of globalization is likely to be partial and incomplete, exaggerating some features, missing others, and risking neglect of events and processes on other scales. Globalization is part of a proliferation of scales and temporalities as narrated, institutionalized objects of action, regularization, and governance. The number of scales and temporalities of action that can be distinguished is immense but far fewer ever get explicitly institutionalized. How far this happens depends on the prevailing technologies of power material, social, and spatio-temporal that enable the identification and institutionalization of specific scales of action and temporalities. It is the development of new logistical means (of distantiation, compression, communication), organizational technologies, institutions with new spatiotemporal horizons of action, broader institutional architectures, new global standards (including world time), and modes of governance that helps to explain this growing proliferation of economically and politically significant institutionalized scales and
13 I H S Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! 5 temporalities. Moreover, as new scales and temporalities emerge and/or existing ones gain in institutional thickness, social forces also tend to develop new mechanisms to link or coordinate them. This in turn often prompts efforts to co-ordinate these new co-ordination mechanisms. Thus, as the triad regions begin to acquire institutional form and identity, new forums develop to co-ordinate their bilateral relations. Likewise, as regionalism develops in the European Union, we find not only an EU-wide Committee of the Regions but also a proliferation of other peak associations and multilateral linkages among regions. Even further down the scale, local authorities develop associations to promote their interests at national, regional, international, and global levels. All of this produces increasing scalar complexity, increasing scope for deliberate interscalar articulation, and increasing problems in making such interscalar articulation work. Similar issues occur in relation to time and its governance. This can be seen in the rise of nano-temporalities at the micro-level and long-term action to ensure environmental sustainability at the macro-level. And this leads in turn to growing problems of intertemporal governance. 2. Globalization and the Spatial Turn Commentators often portray globalization as one of the driving forces in the spatial turn in the social sciences and/or as one of its most important products. For, insofar as globalization appears to be an essentially spatial phenomenon, it allegedly demands an approach that is sensitive to issues of space, place, and scale. Moreover, when we approach globalization in such terms, this often changes how other issues are seen. The spatial turn can be thematic, methodological, or both (cf. Jessop 2001). In the first sense it involves thematizing intrinsically spatial issues as objects of analysis. This sort of turn is hardly controversial provided that it does not lead to a fetishistic naturalization of space, place, and scale or to the belief that space, place, and scale have their own autonomous properties regardless of their social constitution and reproduction and regardless of their articulation with other moments of social relations. In the second sense, the spatial turn involves an investigation of more complex issues by using their spatial moments as an entry point, without this requiring that the investigation does not proceed beyond the spatial. In either case, the spatial turn could involve little more than an innocent, belated, and welcome recognition that space matters in one or more ways; but it could also involve the belief that an earlier interest in time and temporal issues was mistaken, overdone, or at best misleading. In short, there is a risk that the spatial turn is seen as a simple alternative to a focus on temporality. What is really required is a discussion of spatio-temporality rather than implying that there is a choice between them. The ability to integrate the spatial and temporal aspects of globalization is evident in Marx s critique of political economy and his analysis of capitalism in terms of an economy of time. The key point here is that the spatial dynamic of capitalism can be derived in the first
14 6 Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! I H S instance from the competition among capitalists to reduce socially necessary labour time as well as the total time involved in production. Marx showed that individual capitals are subject to competitive pressure to reduce production, circulation, and turnover times. They also face pressure to innovate in other ways that may affect the spatial and scalar divisions of labour. In this sense, although place and space are certainly regarded as a basic material presupposition of all social activities, their entry into Marx s analysis as major variables come much later in the course of his analysis. They are first seriously introduced in terms of particular capitals rather than capital in general; in terms of turnover time rather than production time; and in the context of use-value (e.g., transportation) rather than that of value or exchange-value (de la Haye 1988). This spatial reorganization was as prone to contradictions, however, as any feature of capital as a social relation. For our purposes, this implies, of course, that globalization is also contradictory and will have its limits. These points about Marx s analysis of time and space are worth making because contrasting views have been expressed about their relative primacy in capitalism. It has been suggested that capital s concern with the production of value leads to an emphasis on increasing the socially necessary labour time embodied in commodities (the time of labour); that its concern with the production of surplus value leads to an emphasis on control over space and the importance of constructing and reconstructing space relations and the global space economy; that its concern with profits leads to an emphasis on reducing the socially necessary turnover time of circulating capital and that this is often associated with command over space (means of communication and transportation) as well as organizational innovations; that its concern with social use-value is associated with an emphasis on the spatial relations that determine the usefulness of particular goods and services and/or on the time and/or timing of the delivery of goods and services; and, finally, those who take class struggle as their entry point (especially the struggles of subordinate classes) tend to focus on place and space. For, as Soja comments, class struggle must encompass and focus upon the vulnerable point: the production of space, the territorial structure of exploitation and domination, the spatially controlled reproduction of the system as a whole (Soja 1989: 92). Such contrasting opinions are not so much signs of intellectual incoherence as expressions of basic contradictions in capitalism itself. This is reflected in the contrast between the mobility of abstract money capital in a space of flows and the commodified production and consumption of specific use-values in specific times and places. Yet even this contrast is only ever tendential and relative, for in every instance when we accentuate space or time, the other aspect is still present, although hidden (Czarniawska and Sevón 1996: 21). Thus the mobility of abstract money capital in a space of flows depends on the development of the sort of fixed technical and social infrastructures that characterize the emerging network of global cities. And the production and consumption of specific use-values involves a spatial and scalar division of labour which must also be co-ordinated across different time scales (e.g., associated with different production cycles, different ratios of fixed to circulating capital, and different degrees of durability of goods and services destined for private consumption).
15 I H S Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! 7 There are also contradictory movements in which time is simultaneously compressed and expanded, depending on which part of the system one examines, so that the general progression is uneven and punctuated by more or less significant reverses (Schoenberger 1997: 19). This suggests the need to make a thematic and methodological temporal (re)turn to redress one-sided concern with space in studies of globalization. Interestingly, just such a temporal (re)turn can be seen in a growing recognition of the need to bring time (back) into the analysis of globalization among those who had previously privileged the spatial. 3. On Spatio-Temporal Fixes and the Contradictions of Capitalism Here I want to argue that the reproduction and regularization of capital as a social relation involves a social fix (complex mode of regularization) that compensates for the inherent incompleteness of the pure capital relation, i.e., its inability to secure the conditions for the continued expansion of capital accumulation purely in and through the operation of profitoriented, market-mediated economic forces. This social fix is always time-and-place specific and gives a specific dynamic to capital accumulation through its distinctive, historically variable, and inherently unstable articulation of economic and extra-economic elements. The importance of these extra-economic elements is widely recognized, of course, in very different social scientific literatures (Smithian, Marxian, Weberian, Durkheimian, liberal and neo-liberal, institutionalist, etc). But there is also widespread disagreement about its implications. On my reading, this social fix helps to secure a relatively durable structural coherence in managing the contradictions and dilemmas inherent in the capital relation so that different forms, institutions, and practices tend to be mutually reinforcing. This includes the imposition on these economic and extra-economic elements of a distinctive spatiotemporal fix. Structurally, these spatio-temporal fixes emerge when an accumulation regime and its complex mode of regularization co-evolve to produce a certain structural coherence within a given spatio-temporal framework but not beyond it. This is typically associated with a distinctive hierarchy of the various structural or institutional forms of capitalism that thereby affects their interactions within the institutional architecture as a whole and shapes the overall logic of the spatio-temporal fix. This hierarchy involves giving greater priority to the regularizing of some structural forms (and giving greater priority, perhaps, to one or other aspect of their associated contradictions and dilemmas) than to other structural forms. These priorities will vary with accumulation regimes, modes of growth, and governance capacities. In the Atlantic Fordism associated with the thirty years of postwar economic expansion in most advanced capitalist economies, for example, the wage and money forms were the principal structural forms at the heart of the mode of regularization. In constrast, in the emerging post-fordist regime based on a globalizing knowledge-based economy, other
16 8 Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! I H S forms have become more important and, indeed, critical to the eventual consolidation of a new accumulation regime and mode of regularization. These are the forms of competition and the institutional forms and functions of the state. Or, again, while liberal market economies may give more weight to labour-power as a substitutable factor of production and to the wage as a cost of production, more co-ordinated capitalist economies may prioritize labour-power in its guise as human capital (sic) and the wage as a source of demand. Strategically, because capitalism s contradictions and dilemmas are insoluble in the abstract, they are resolved partially and provisionally, if at all through the formulation-realization of specific accumulation strategies at various economic and political scales in specific spatiotemporal contexts. Such spatio-temporal fixes delimit the main spatial and temporal boundaries within which structural coherence is secured, and externalize certain costs of securing this coherence beyond these boundaries. Even within these boundaries some classes, class fractions, social categories or other social forces located inside these spatio-temporal boundaries are marginalized, excluded, or oppressed. Thus, spatio-temporal fixes also facilitate the institutionalized compromises on which accumulation regimes and modes of regulation depend, and subsequently come to embody them. This can involve super-exploitation of internal or external spaces outside the compromise, super-exploitation of nature or inherited social resources, deferral of problems into an indefinite future and, of course, the exploitation and/or oppression of specific classes, strata or other social categories. Nonetheless, insofar as such compromises marginalize forces that act as bearers of functions or operations essential to long-run accumulation, the growth of significant imbalances, disproportionalities or disunity in the circuit of capital will tend to strengthen the hand of these forces, enabling them to disrupt the institutionalized compromises involved in a particular accumulation regime, mode of regulation, state form and spatio-temporal fix (cf. Clarke 1977). Such crises typically act as a steering mechanism for the always provisional, partial and unstable re-equilibration of capital accumulation insofar as they prompt attempts to guide the forcible reimposition of the unity of the circuit of capital through new accumulation strategies and modes of regulation. The primary scales and temporal horizons around which such fixes are built and the extent of their coherence vary considerably over time. This is reflected in the variable coincidence of different boundaries, borders or frontiers of action and the changing primacy of different scales. Political boundaries, for example, have been characterized by medieval polymorphy, Westphalian exclusivity, and post-westphalian complexity. Likewise, the consolidation of capitalism witnessed the national eclipse of the urban scale as cities were integrated into national economic systems and subordinated to the political power of national territorial states. And the national scale has since been challenged by the rise of global city networks more oriented to other global cities than to national hinterlands.
17 I H S Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! 9 These ideas have important implications for accumulation strategies, state projects, and hegemonic projects on various scales of action and over different time horizons. For each of these involves an attempt to strategically co-ordinate activities across different systems and the lifeworld in order to achieve a limited, localized structural coherence in accumulation, state activities and social formations respectively. There is ample scope for competition among social forces over accumulation strategies, state projects, and hegemonic visions as well as for potential disjunctions between the strategies that emerge from such competition to dominate their respective imagined spheres. In this context a key role is played by the rivalries and struggles of intellectual forces, individually and collectively, in a free-floating or an organized manner, to articulate strategies, projects and visions that seek to reconcile contradictions and conflicts and to resolve dilemmas for various sites and scales of action (cf. Gramsci 1971). The principal forces involved in these rivalries and struggles are organized interests, political parties, and social movements with the mass media rather than the public sphere now having a central position in the mediation of the struggle for hegemony in these matters. As part of a given spatio-temporal fix, different institutions, apparatuses or agencies may specialize primarily in one or other horn of a dilemma, deal with it over different temporal horizons, or address different aspects at different times. The state may also alter the balance between institutions, apparatuses and agencies by reallocating responsibilities and resources, allowing them to compete for political support and legitimacy as circumstances change, etc. Such strategies may be pursued entirely within the state or extend to the division between state and non-state modes of governance. Another way to manage potential problems arising from the limits of different modes of policy-making or crisismanagement is through variable policy emphases across different scales of action and temporal horizons. For example, in Atlantic Fordism, the national state set the macroeconomic framework, the local state acted as its relay for many nationally-determined policies, and intergovernmental cooperation in various international regimes maintained the conditions for national economic growth. Likewise, in contemporary neoliberal accumulation regimes, a relative neglect of substantive (as opposed to formal) supply-side conditions at the international and national levels in favour of capital flows in and through space is partly compensated by more interventionist policies at the regional, urban and local levels, where many material interdependencies among specific productive capitals are located (Gough and Eisenschitz 1996). This helps explain why local states are being reorganized as new forms of local or regional partnership emerge to guide and promote the development of local or regional resources. Another example of spatial-scalar divisions of labour is the distinction between foreign and domestic relations inherent in the modern state system such that some parts of the state apparatus specialize in external relations, some in internal relations. However, with the growing impact of globalization and new forms of competitiveness, inherited divisions of state labour change. Thus, not only is the distinction between domestic and foreign policy
18 10 Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! I H S becoming blurred; but subnational governments are now getting engaged in foreign (economic) policy through cross-border cooperation, international localization, and so on, at the same time as supranational bodies get involved in the redesign and reorientation of subnational politics. There can also be a temporal division of labour with different institutions, apparatuses or agencies responding to contradictions, dilemmas and paradoxes over different time horizons. This is reflected in the conventional distinction between planning and execution within organizations and in the primacy of different temporal horizons across organizations (for example, banks and central banks, computer-programmed arbitrage funds and long-term venture capital funds). Similarly, corporatist arrangements have often been established to address long-term economic and social issues where complex, reciprocal interdependence requires long-term cooperation thereby taking the relevant policy areas outside the shortterm time horizons of electoral cycles and parliamentary in-fighting. In both cases there is scope for activities to rebalance relations among these institutions, apparatuses or agencies through differential allocation of resources; allowing them to compete for legitimacy in changing circumstances. 4. Spatio-Temporal Contradictions in Contemporary Capitalism The multicentric, multiscalar, multitemporal, multiform, and multicausal processes associated with globalization enhance capital s capacity to defer and displace its internal contradictions, if not to resolve them, by increasing the scope of its operations on a global scale, by reinforcing its capacities to disembed certain of its operations from local material, social, and spatio-temporal constraints, by enabling it to deepen the spatial and scalar divisions of labour, by creating more opportunities for moving up, down, and across scales, by commodifying and securitizing the future, by deferring past and present material problems into the future, by promoting long-term technology forecasting, organizational learning, and trust building, and by re-articulating different time horizons. These enhanced capacities can markedly reinforce tendencies to uneven development as the search continues for new spatio-temporal displacements and new spatio-temporal fixes. Above all, globalization helps to emancipate the exchange-value moment of capital from extra-economic and spatiotemporal constraints, increases the emphasis on speed, acceleration, and turnover time, and enhances capital s capacity to escape the control of other systems insofar as these are still territorially differentiated and fragmented. 1 This is linked to its increased capacity for discounting events (so collapsing the future into the present), its increased capacity for time- 1 Conversely, the growth of global legal and political systems and other international regimes means that mobile capital will remain subject to their constraints.
19 I H S Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! 11 space compression, its resort to complex derivative trading to manage risk, and its capacities to jump scale. Finally, globalization weakens the capacity of national states to guide capital s expansion within a framework of national security (as reflected in the national security state ), national welfare (as reflected in social democratic welfare states), or some other national project with a corresponding spatio-temporal fix. And, conversely, it increases the pressures on national states to adjust to the time horizons and temporalities of mobile capital able to operate beyond their frontiers. In short, the development of a globalizing capitalism typically intensifies the spatio-temporal contradictions and tensions inherent in the capital relation and/or its articulation and coevolution with the spatialities and temporalities of the natural and social world beyond the sphere of value relations. The increasing emphasis on speed and the growing acceleration of social life is particularly disruptive and disorienting (see Virilio 1994; 1998). Here I want to note five tensions or contradictions it introduces into the globalizing economy. These are not engendered by globalization as such; my approach to globalization rules this out. But they are tensions or contradictions that become more severe with the increasing organizational and spatio-temporal complexity and flexibility in the circuits of capital associated with globalization. First, there is a tension between the complex, reciprocally interdependent substantive reproduction requirements of real natural, social, and cultural processes and the simplified, one-sided, monetized temporalities involved in capital s emphasis on exchange-value. Globalization reinforces this tension by making it easier for capital to destroy the local bounties of first and second nature and then move on without regard to their long-term reproduction. Indeed, the growing emphasis on artificial short-term profit means that, as capital speeds up, it diminishes or degrades the conditions of the natural reproduction of natural things (Brennan 1995: 31). Second, there is a tension among the many and varied substantive temporalities of human existence (biological, sentient, sociocultural, self-reflexive) and the abstract time inherent in the commodification of labour power and the dominance of formal market rationality (Stahel 1999: 108; see also Polanyi 1944). This is reflected in the stresses of everyday life and in a growing sense of time-space compression. Third, contemporary capitalism involves a paradox that (t)he most advanced economies function more and more in terms of the extra-economic (Veltz 1996: 12). This rests on the increasing interdependence between economic and extra-economic factors making for structural competitiveness. This is linked to the growth of new technologies based on more complex transnational, national, and regional systems of innovation, to the paradigm shift from Fordism with its emphasis on productivity growth rooted in economies of scale to post- Fordism with its emphasis on mobilising social as well as economic sources of flexibility and entrepreneurialism, and to the more general attempts to penetrate micro-social relations in
20 12 Bob Jessop / Globalization: It s about Time too! I H S the interests of valorization. It is reflected in the emphasis now given to social capital, trust, and communities of learning as well as to the competitive role of entrepreneurial cities, enterprise culture, and enterprising subjects. This paradox generates a major contradiction between short-term economic calculation (especially in financial flows) and the long-term dynamic of real competition rooted in resources (skills, trust, heightened reflexivity, collective mastery of techniques, economies of agglomeration and size) that may take years to create, stabilize, and reproduce. Likewise, spatially, there is a basic contradiction between the economy seen as a de-territorialized, socially disembedded space of flows and as a territorially rooted, socially embedded system of extra-economic as well as economic resources, competencies, and activities (Storper 1997). The latter moment is reflected in wide range of new concepts to describe the knowledge-driven economy national, regional, and local systems of innovation, innovative milieus, systemic or structural competitiveness, learning regions, social capital, trust, learning-by-doing, speed-based competition, etc. This poses new dilemmas for the stabilization of the capital relation over more scales and over increasingly compressed as well as extended temporal horizons of action. Fourth, temporally, there is a tension between the drive to accelerate the circulation of capital by shortening the production cycle between design and final consumption and the long-term infrastructural development on which this depends. In this context, Harvey notes that [I]t takes a specific organization of space to try and annihilate space and it takes capital of long turnover time to facilitate the more rapid turnover of the rest. But the reduction of spatial barriers has an equally powerful opposite effect; small-scale and finely graded differences between the qualities of places (their labor supply, their infrastructures, and political receptivity, their resource mixes, their market niches, etc.) become even more important because multinational capital is better able to exploit them. (1996a: 246 7). This set of contradictions is aggravated by the increasing capacity for temporal compression linked to the latest ICT developments, which distresses many other fractions of capital and puts pressure on the state and other less mobile social forces. Fifth, spatially, there is a tension between extending the scope of markets through the annihilation of space by time and the need for fixed infrastructure to enable rapid movement through space (which must be destroyed in turn as the next round of accumulation develops) (Harvey 1996b: 6). This contradiction may be aggravated by the expansion of production through mechanization and scale economies. Because this requires larger markets, it extends the time of commodity circulation and may also extend the overall turnover time due to the higher proportion of fixed to total capital. It can also lead to a dialectic of spatial concentration (agglomeration economies) and dispersal (congestion, land prices, unionization, etc.) (Schoenberger 1997: 19 21). There are spiral processes at work in the last two contradictions that tend to increase the spatio-temporal complexities of regularizing and governing capital accumulation. Every local decentralization presupposes a renewed form of centralization at a higher level. Every
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Brazil's long-debated "Internet Bill of Rights" has finally become law. The legislation, which passed the Brazilian Senate unanimously in April, is intended to secure equality of access to the Internet in Brazil—i.e., Net Neutrality—and provide privacy protections for Brazilian users of the Internet. Experts hailed the law "for balancing the rights and duties of users, government and corporations while ensuring the Internet continues to be an open and decentralized network."
The law, known as the Marco Civil da Internet or "Marco Civil" (in English, the Civil Internet Regulatory Framework) was first proposed in the Brazilian Congress in 2011, but received new significance in late 2013 after revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had spied on the communications of persons across the world—including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Rousseff signed the Marco Civil into law on April 23, 2014. The law goes into effect in July.
Commonly referred to in English as an "Internet Bill of Rights" or "Internet Constitution", Brazil's new Marco Civil provides for the freedom of expression and of content on the internet while also limiting the amount of metadata that can be gathered on Brazilian Internet users.
The legislation also includes broadly worded protections for privacy on the internet. Disclosure of personal data to third parties generally requires the informed consent of an Internet user, except under a valid court order.
Companies that collect personal data from residents of Brazil will be subject to Brazil's laws and courts in cases involving information on Brazilians, even if the data is stored on servers abroad. In order to ensure its passage, a controversial provision was dropped from the law that would have required companies to store data related to Brazilian Internet users on servers within country.
In addition, ISPs will be required to retain Internet access logs for one year.
The Marco Civil may not be the end of legislation related to the Internet and personal data protection for Brazil. The Brazilian Congress was also working on law to protect personal data protection bill at the same time that the Marco Civil was under consideration. The personal data protection bill was described as containing "an EU-style adequacy standard that would prohibit data transfers outside of Brazil unless the recipient country ensures an adequate level of data protection."
The Brazilian Congress was expected to take up this data protection bill after the Marco Civil was passed, though it is not clear whether the Marco Civil's final form has effectively tabled this issue.

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Many thanks to Lloyd who keeps finding the most amazing photographs. This time its a photo of the Methodist Church Choir taken 20 October 1922 - the most amazing thing is that it was taken aboard the ps Wakatere. Maybe you recognise someone in the choir?
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WESTFIELD, NJ — July 9 was the second jazz night of the 17th Annual Sweet Sounds Downtown Jazz Festival in Westfield, a series of free live performances taking place downtown each Tuesday night in July and August from 7 to 9 p.m.
Among the performers that night was the Gordon James Band, regulars of the festival for nearly 10 years, who treated the ever-growing crowd of all ages to renditions of songs made famous by Duke Ellington, Sting and others.
"I started this band in about 1994 and I've been playing festivals like these, restaurants, senior centers, which I love doing since they love the music so much," Gordon James told The Alternative Press of Westfield. "I also do lecture performance programs on the history of jazz and similar things. I'm a busy guy."
For this performance, James said he wanted to get a lot of variety into the set, "so we played some R&B, some classics like 'Do You Feel Like Making Love Tonight,' some Duke Ellington, and we ended the set with Sting's 'Fragile.' We wanted to mix it up a bit, especially since we saw a pretty mixed crowd of young and old people. So we really just winged it," he laughed.
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Rainbow Bagels Are Out, Oreo Bagels Are In. We Are All Doomed.
You might remember a few months back when we (and a whole bunch of other food sites) wrote about the rise of the rainbow bagel. People lined up hours before the store opened to get their hands on something that everyone was talking about. But like all trends, its time has come and passed. The rainbow bagel has now been overshadowed by a new – albeit less colorful – bagel. Welcome to the age of the Oreo bagel.
The "Oreo Overload" is the brainchild of the bakers at The Bagel Nook in New Jersey. They filled a chocolate and vanilla swirled bagel with a combination of whole Oreos and — of course — cookies and cream cream cheese frosting. It sounds pretty diabolical, no?
I bet it's tasty, but I have to admit that I'm a little bewildered by the recent surge in dessert-themed bagels. I mean, we already have ice cream sandwiches — do we really need another sandwich for dessert? I'd argue that all of these bagels would be better if they were made with 100 percent less bagel, more cookies, and the addition of ice cream. Keep the wild colors and fillings, of course, but leave the bagels savory, please.
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Sooners Achieve Another Record GSR
NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma earned its highest student-athlete Graduation Success Rate ever, according to information released Tuesday by the NCAA.
Oklahoma has achieved record improvement in its Graduation Success Rate in the last six years, jumping from 71 percent to 85 percent. Tuesday's NCAA report reflects a four-year average of freshmen who enrolled in 2006-07 through 2009-10.
OU's 85-percent success rate exceeds the Division I student-athlete national average of 84 percent.
Seven Oklahoma programs registered a 100-percent Graduation Success Rate for the reporting period: men's gymnastics, men's tennis, women's basketball, women's gymnastics, rowing, women's tennis and volleyball.
OU athletics programs with multi-year streaks of a 100-percent Graduation Success Rate are women's tennis (nine years), men's tennis (eight), women's basketball (six), rowing (all four years of the team's existence at OU) and women's gymnastics and volleyball (three each).
The Graduation Success Rate for 14 of 17 of Oklahoma's intercollegiate athletics programs either increased or held steady.
"The real credit goes to the student-athletes who make it a priority to finish their degree along with preparing themselves for life beyond athletics."
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"Once again, we're proud of the continued academic achievement and progress of our athletics program," said OU Vice President and Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione. "The real credit goes to the student-athletes who make it a priority to finish their degree along with preparing themselves for life beyond athletics. I also would like to recognize the commitment of our coaches and academic support staff in ensuring that our student-athletes maintain those priorities as they work toward graduation. We're very pleased with another record Graduation Success Rate and will continue to work every day to create a world-class student-athlete experience."
The OU football program's Graduation Success Rate has improved by 17 percentage points the last two years to a program-record 76 percent this year (was 59 percent in 2014 report). Football's GSR also exceeds the FBS average of 74 percent.
Including the spring 2016 semester, OU student-athletes have registered a cumulative GPA above 3.00 for a record nine consecutive semesters. That cumulative GPA reflects the overall academic performance of those student-athletes from their first semester of collegiate enrollment through the completion of the spring 2016 term.


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Post its hugely successful IPO, micro-blogging site Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) has been very
busy trying to ensure that it grabs that proverbial worm. Stagnancy on any
front spells a risk of getting thrown out of the competition ring. No matter
how large a company is, innovation is the only way of ensuring that spot in the
Twitter to Feature Everywhere
TWTR is all set to target the vast user-base that does not use smartphones or have handsets sans Internet services. Those who use feature phones will also be able use the microblogging service. The Fonetwish service by U2opia Mobile uses a telecom protocol called Unstructured Supplementary Service Data. Users of this service just have to dial a particular number to receive a Twitter feed with all the trending topics. The emerging markets are flooded with feature phones and their ballooning population makes them a perfect launch-pad for the service.
Come March 2014 and Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) can be in very hand on every phone. Of course, users of these phones will have access only to a text version and the technology will not transmit videos or images- India, Brazil and various other emerging markets are the current hotspots for technology and communication companies and the Blue avian might just be tweeting in every hand across the planet. Currently, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s GoogleTalk make use of a similar service from U2opia.
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Advertising has always been and is big business. Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) as well as the slew of social networking sites like Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and search engines like Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) rake in big dollars through advertising every year. To this effect, Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) now has a new approach to advertising.
Now "promoted tweets" can be delivered to any customer who indicates an interest in a particular company's brand via the "tailored audiences" service, Promoters can define their own groups of current and potential customers and connect with them via Twitter with customized messages, said the company.
The Raw Power of Data Mining
In 2012, TWTR garnered $47.5 million from licensing the company's data. Y-T-D, there has been a 36% rise in its licensing revenue that piggybacked a 30% price hike. Though the company leans very heavily on its advertising efforts for revenue-generation, its data licensing business has been catapulted into the limelight. This is largely due to Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s Topsy acquisition. This is one of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)'s certified data sellers.
Today, the latter is a unique resource for trend-spotting and news and the market is choc-a-bloc with companies that might find the data on the site useful. The supplier power that the company holds over them is immense and it will steadily up its licensing even as a larger number of bidders with more muscle power enter the fray. While Twitter is swimming further into the data mining waters, FB has been neglecting the avenue and it seems like it just prefers to keep all its raw data to itself.
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These colorful leaves are long gone, but i've been meaning to post these pictures of a hike we took up Millcreek Canyon when Charlie boy was just 7 weeks old. I was hunkered in my house the tail end of summer/beginning of fall so this was literally a breath of fresh air. I can't believe we live just 5 minutes away from this! Baby boy was just as thrilled about it - as you can tell ;)
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You look amazing just after 7 weeks!!! He is quite a cutie that Charlie boy!
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LAKEVILLE, Ind. (AP) Â? The state could begin buying land this summer for a project to turn U.S. 31 between Plymouth and South Bend into a limited-access highway, officials said Wednesday.
A final environmental impact statement for improving the highway has been completed, which could allow the state to begin buying land three years earlier than expected, said Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Lakeville.
"U.S. 31, between Plymouth and South Bend, is a top priority and is moving forward at warp speed," Gov. Mitch Daniels said.
Daniels said the project is the first to clear the environmental impact hurdle since the General Assembly passed Major Moves.
Major Moves is the legislation that allows the state to lease the Indiana Toll Road to a private, foreign consortium to raise money for road projects. The state signed the contract allowing the transfer of the Toll Road Wednesday, shortly before a citizens group filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the legislation.
Now that the Federal Highway Administration has approved the impact study, the next step is a public comment period. Then the Highway Administration will issue a final decision that could clear the way for design and land acquisition to begin.
Daniels said the rebuilding of U.S. 31 could begin as soon as 2008 and be finished within five to seven years.


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Diplomatic talks between the U.S. and Cuba have "continued to advance," but there is no decision yet on opening embassies in each other's countries, according to Cuba's lead negotiator.
The heads of U.S. and Cuba delegations to re-establish diplomatic relations delivered public addresses Friday from the Foreign Press Center in Washington.
"Both delegations agreed to continue our exchanges on issues related to the functioning of diplomatic missions, so we will continue those conversations over the next few weeks," Josefina Vidal, director of U.S. affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, said in response to a question about impending embassies.
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In her prepared remarks, Vidal said the Cuban mission is ready to discuss issues such as lifting the embargo once diplomatic relations are formally reestablished.
The U.S., meanwhile admitted the challenges of achieving that feat, but characterized the talks as "highly productive."
"This has not been an easy task given our complicated history," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson said.
Jacobson added that she could not specify what parts of opening an embassy remain sticking points between the two parties.
Talks between the two countries went into a second day on Friday as the sides try to reach agreement on reopening embassies shut for more than half a century, the crucial next step in their historic detente.
The opening of embassies in Washington and Havana is part of an agreement struck between U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in December to reestablish diplomatic ties severed by the United States in 1961 soon after Cuba's revolution.


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Dalai Lama's Chinese website hacked and infected
The Chinese-language website of the Tibetan government-in-exile, whose spiritual head is the Dalai Lama, has been hacked and infected with viruses.
Experts at computer security company Kaspersky Lab warned that the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) site had been compromised.
It is believed the malicious software could be used to spy on visitors.
Technical evidence suggests the hackers carried out previous cyber-attacks on human rights groups in Asia.
Tibet.net is the official website of the CTA, which is based in Dharamshala, northern India.
The organisation's spiritual leader is the 14th Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed anti-Chinese uprising, and set up a government-in-exile. China considers the Dalai Lama a separatist threat.
Constant threat
Kaspersky says the CTA website has been under constant attack from the same group of hackers since 2011, but previous breaches have been quietly identified and repaired before attracting significant attention.
Other Tibetan organisations, such as the International Campaign for Tibet, have also been targeted.
Kaspersky Lab researcher Kurt Baumgartner says the hackers used a method known as a "watering-hole attack".
A security bug in Oracle's Java software might have been exploited, giving hackers a "back door" into browsers' computers.
"This is the initial foothold," Mr Baumgartner said. "From there they can download arbitrary files and execute them on the system."
Kaspersky's education manager Ram Herkanaidu said the discovery of the attack came after an "email account of a prominent Tibetan activist was hacked".
Mr Herkanaidu added: "The likely actors behind the sustained campaign against Tibetan sites are Chinese speaking, as in many cases we have seen log files written in Chinese."


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Hello all. 1. A script defined after the  of a document, is silently moved inside. Do you think that is ok? I have a few webpages where I'd rather prefer the scripts stayed where I put them to ensure they are executed after the body's onLoad event. See the sample below. 2. To enhance readability, should not a blank line be generated in front of the opening  lines ? 3. And how about indenting a script block? 4. Of course, tidying *inside* the block is quite a different matter still and might not be the scope of Tidy at all. Who knows a suitable "plugin" for that, i.e. a javascript code beautifier ? Now here's the sample: INPUT: ======  <title>Tidy Test</title>
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