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Reflection on Ursula K. Heise’s Paper “From the Blue Planet to Google Earth”
In this paper, Ursula K. Heise deals with many dimensions on Ursula K. LeGuin’s work “Vaster than Empires”, localism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, eco-cosmopolitanism, and forms of the global. I would like to focus on the idea on deterritorialization in this reflection because I am interested about deterritorialization. According to Heise, “Deterritorialization implies that the average daily life, in the context of globality, is shaped by structures, processes, and products that originate elsewhere” (Heise 54). As Heise portrays, there are many products makes us have the illusion on displacement in modern society. For example, people may buy American jeans to wear, eat Korean pickle, and cut the hairdo like Visual kei whose hairstyles appear on Japanese pop singer in our nation. It shows as if the frontier of the nation is destroyed by modern products. Hence, in Heise’s view, “This displacement is caused by the availability of internationally produced and distributed consumer products, cultural artifacts, and foods, the presence of media such as radio, television, and the Internet” (Heise 52). I would like to conclude this part, through cites Heise’s view, “Deterritorialization is the major cultural impact of global connectivity” (Heise 53). In addition to, I am interested about Heise’s view on identity politics. In Heise’s view, the people who are exiled can be regarded as the power of opposing the hegemony. In my own view, this concept is different from traditional thinking. In traditional society, people always think the group of exile as a group of oppressive who are bullied by the structure of society. But it is totally different. I think it is avant-garde thinking on identity politics.
In this paper, Ursula K. Heise deals with many dimensions on Ursula K. LeGuin’s work “Vaster than Empires”, localism, deterritorialization, cosmopolitanism, eco-cosmopolitanism, and forms of the global. I would like to focus on the idea on deterritorialization in this reflection because I am interested about deterritorialization. According to Heise, “Deterritorialization implies that the average daily life, in the context of globality, is shaped by structures, processes, and products that originate elsewhere” (Heise 54). As Heise portrays, there are many products makes us have the illusion on displacement in modern society. For example, people may buy American jeans to wear, eat Korean pickle, and cut the hairdo like Visual kei whose hairstyles appear on Japanese pop singer in our nation. It shows as if the frontier of the nation is destroyed by modern products. Hence, in Heise’s view, “This displacement is caused by the availability of internationally produced and distributed consumer products, cultural artifacts, and foods, the presence of media such as radio, television, and the Internet” (Heise 52). I would like to conclude this part, through cites Heise’s view, “Deterritorialization is the major cultural impact of global connectivity” (Heise 53). In addition to, I am interested about Heise’s view on identity politics. In Heise’s view, the people who are exiled can be regarded as the power of opposing the hegemony. In my own view, this concept is different from traditional thinking. In traditional society, people always think the group of exile as a group of oppressive who are bullied by the structure of society. But it is totally different. I think it is avant-garde thinking on identity politics.
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