Globalisation and making sense of the world : media studies : conference paper
2004
This article grapples with the problem of understanding present human life and circumstances, and
the challenges humans face in their effort to make sense of it. The importance of theory in this quest
is emphasised. Two notions are considered in terms of their value towards this endeavour:
globalisation and worlding. Globalisation is the current buzz word and some of the issues related to
this term have been named. The term lIgworldl/Ig is, however, preferred to globalisation , since lIgworldl/Ig does
not refer to the impersonal globe, cosmos or universe. The term world , or worlding , wants to
emphasise humanisation and further signifies sense-making. Sense-making, however, is no easy
matter. On the one hand, it involves the threatening reality of evil, not in the religious sense but in a
profound ethical sense. On the other hand, it involves the process of the expansion of consciousness
carried and supported by the ascent into the noosphere which offers an awareness of a kind of
thinking other than and different from logical reasoning. While the one warns against the
mechanisation of the mind, the other maintains that technique is a point of support for the
spiritualisation of humanity. This world compels us to find or make sense of it; world is precisely where
there is a place, a true place, for everybody. If this were not the case there would only be a globe: a
place of exile where we would exist as strangers.
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