I referenced one of Spivak’s aphorisms in this book’s introduction: “Globalization takes place only in capital and data. Everything else is damage control.” We talk about politics, culture, and travel becoming globalized, but on a more fundamental level, Spivak is correct that what really flows across the planet are various forms of money and information: investments, corporations, infrastructure, server farms, and the combined data of all the digital platforms, sluicing invisibly like wind or ocean currents between nations. We users voluntarily pump our own information through this same
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