In the World Interior of Capitalism

[Dave Monroe]

In the end phase of globalization, the world system completed its
development and, as a capitalist system, came to determine all conditions
of life. Sloterdijk takes the Crystal Palace in London, the site of the
first world exhibition in 1851, as the most expressive metaphor for this
situation. The palace demonstrates the inevitable exclusivity of
globalization as the construction of a comfort structure, that is, the
establishment and expansion of a world interior whose boundaries are
invisible, yet virtually insurmountable from without, and which is
inhabited by one and a half billion winners of globalization; three times
this number are left standing outside the door.

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The Crystal Palace

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/crystal-palace.html
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