The technological metaphysics of planetary space: being in the age of globalization.

In this paper I look at globalization in terms of the metaphysical event of being, arguing that in order to discuss the issue of globalization the ontological conditions of possibility for its historical appearance need to be prioritized. Using the philosophy of Martin Heidegger allows us to see how globalization belongs to the modern calculable understanding of space, and therefore to the particular metaphysical event of technological existence. Through an acknowledgment of the metaphysics of gigantic growth and totalitarian magnitude, globalization is seen as a planetary consummation of the kind of technological disclosure of being. This is a period in which the entire globe stands at the service of complete and manipulative calculability. In this paper I argue that in globalization the world is ontologically understood as a picture in which everything becomes gathered together as a reserve to be ordered and challenged by anthropocentric will and value-creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]