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From Central Asia to the Caucasus and Anatolia: transcultural subjectivity and de-colonial thinking1

The argument that responds to the question formulated in the title of Madina Tlostanova’s The Sublime of Globalization? (cited hereafter as SG) comes in chapter II, section 7. Here, Tlostanova reminds us of Kant’s ‘sublime’ and current uses of this concept, such as the ‘sweatshop sublime’, which has been suggested as the sublime of globalisation. Tlostanova asks: ‘What is really sublime about globalisation? How is it realised aesthetically inside and outside Western culture? How can we define the aesthetic value or devaluation in various literary and cultural situations generated by globalisation?’ (SG, pp 121 122). Underscoring Kant’s concept of the ‘raw’ (children, women and ‘primitives’ who are not yet ready to sense the sublime*or the beautiful*and are also deprived of full reason), Tlostanova takes issue with Bruce Robbins’s updating of Kant’s sublime in the sensibility of global networks. She points out that Robbins’s sublime presupposes a Western sensibility and episteme. That is, if the network of phenomena invoked by the cereal box that a New Yorker has in front of him while having breakfast and reading the newspaper is global, then the points or nodes from where such phenomena are felt and conceived are not global but local: the sensibility and epistemic awareness of an educated New Yorker. In that sense, Robbins’s sublime reproduces Kant’s Eurocentrism in con-fusing the global set of phenomena with the assumed uni-versal sensibility and understanding of THE subject. Invisible and at the