Transgressive Flows: Theorizing a Hauntology of Anti-Globalization

The transgressive flows of anti-globalization have powerfully demonstrated the grassroots counter-hegemonic process of ”globalization-from-below”. In this paper, I would argue that anti-globalization does not necessarily aim to assault globalization per se. Rather, it aims to deconstruct-not destroy-the rise of a U.S.-based form of imperial globality. Much effort has been made to define, support, warn of and/or denounce the phenomenon of globalization, which has been accelerating since the 1970s. However, studies of anti-globalization have received relatively less attention. Worse yet, the anti-globalization movement has frequently been distorted and smeared. By mainly using the Derridean ”logic of hauntology” and the Levinasian ”I-Other relation,” I attempt to throw theoretical light upon the intersecting forces of spectrality, which give ethico-political meaning to the acts of anti-globalization. In so doing, I hope to show that the on-going transgressive flows of resistance in the economy of anti-globalization underscore a Levinasian belief: ”The ethical resistance is the presence of infinity.”