The Whole World as Strange Place

Abstract

In The Whole World as Strange Place, an essay-like work, Canclini approaches
many cultural aspects of the contemporaneity in times of social decomposition. The structures that we believed to be stable and the theories we considered to explain the social realities no longer stand in a world in which actors are connected to socio technical networks and are creating and recreating their forms of association. In the book, the author crosses the world like a strange place, throwing itself in a "fly down" on subjects like: being foreign; the democracy, that in his concern gains the adjective "scoundrel"; forms of hacktivism; ways of writing science and literature; in addition to talking about academic congresses, always from a critical point of view regarding dominant Western culture and magisterial certainties.