Confronting Master Narratives: History As Vision in Miyazaki Hayao's Cinema of De-assurance

There is something . . . timeless about the concept of global culture.Widely diffused in space, a global culture is cut off from any past. As the perennial pursuit of an elusive present or an imagined future it has no history. A global culture is here and now and everywhere, and for its purposes the past only serves to offer some decontexualized example or element for its cosmopolitan patchwork.—Anthony D. Smith, “Towards a Global Culture?”