The document discusses how globalization produces fragmented power relations through scattered worlds that are profit-oriented. It explores how imagination can both discipline citizens through states and markets, but also enable collective dissent and new designs for collective life. Several concepts are examined, including Guattari's concern with assemblages of enunciation that forge new interpretations, the four divisions of the unconscious, passages from subjected to subject groups, and abstract machines that reshape subjectivity and relationships. The document also looks at Sudanese families in Australia, young Muslims in Australia using Facebook, and how globalized identities determine difference and imaginations.

1. David R Cole
University of Western Sydney
Centre for Educational Research (CER)

2. Abstract
 “The global system of post-industrial and newly industrializing
worlds produces scattered and poly-centered yet always profit-
oriented power relations which function not so much by binary
oppositions but in a fragmented and all-pervasive manner. The
rhizomic or web-like structure of contemporary power, however,
does not alter fundamentally its terms of application. If anything,
power relations in globalization are more ruthless than ever,”
(Braidotti, 2012, p. 169).
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3. Arjun Appardurai
If globalisation is
characterised by disjunctive
flows that generate acute
problems of social well-
being, one positive force
that encourages an
emancipatory politics of
globalisation is the role of
imagination… On the one
hand, it is through the
imagination that modern
citizens are disciplined and
controlled—by states,
markets, and other powerful
interests. But it is also the
faculty through which
collective patterns of
dissent and new designs for
collective life occur. (p. 6)
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4. Cartographies…
 “What I am precisely concerned with,”
Guattari explained, “is a displacement of
the analytic problematic, a drift from
systems of statement [énoncé] and
preformed subjective structures toward
assemblages of enunciation that can
forge new coordinates of interpretation
and ‘bring to existence’ unheard-of ideas
and proposals”
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5. 4 division of the
unconscious
 The four divisions of the unconscious
diagram deal with: 1) cut-outs of existential
territories; 2) complexions of material and
energetic flows; 3) rhizomes of abstract
ideas and 4) constellations of aesthetic
refrains. Perhaps more tangibly, one could
say about these 4 zones that they are — i)
the ground beneath your feet; ii) the
turbulence of social experience; iii) the blue
sky of ideas and; iv) the rhythmic
insistence of waking dreams.
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6. The group
 This idea concerns the passage from a
‘subjected group’, often alienated by
globalisation, to a ‘subject group’, that is
capable of making its own statements. The
theme occurs throughout Guattari’s first book, 1972,
Psychanalyse et transversalité: Essais d’analyse
institutionnelle. La Découverte, Paris. For example
in “Introduction à la psychothérapie institutionnelle.”
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7. Abstract machines Yet what the fourfold
diagrams try to map out are
not just the latencies and
possibilities of speech on the
edge of an all-absorbing
state of anti-conditioning and
strikingly revolutionary
action, but more specifically,
the material situations and
logical steps that draw
subjectivity out of its
containment and into
unfolding, globalised flows
and inter-relationships which
are themselves reshaped
through their collisions with
ceaselessly mutating
operational diagrams that
Deleuze & Guattari (1988)
called ‘abstract machines’…
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8. Escape routes…
 The point of this method of
participatory educational
research is to resist, create,
propose alternatives and to
escape in terms of the
evolving singularities of the
group, despite the normalizing
forces that are continually
brought to bear on
collectivism by aspects of
contemporary capitalist
society, e.g. the confinement
of the bourgeoisie, or the
oedipal family.
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9. Meta-modelling
 On the contrary, the
meta-modelling of this
article works from within
to make difference
happen in each example,
so globalised
subjectivities are not
essentialised, but
realised in terms of the
inter-relationships
between examples and in
the singularities of the
examples themselves
that have no relations
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10. Sudanese families in Australia
 There has been extensive coverage in the
Australian media and in the political arena
about the ways in which the Sudanese
have fitted in or otherwise into mainstream
Australian society, and this coverage has
not always been positive. See, for
example, an ABC interview with the former
Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, at:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s20
57250.htm
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11. Diagram
i) the houses where the Sudanese currently
live in Australia, which replicate the tribal and
village spaces in the Sudan, and their
convoluted journeys to get to these places
from different regions in the Sudan, e.g. via
Egypt; ii) the Sudanese community world,
including the influences of Christian worship
and their perspective on Australian social life
taken from Australian media and their contact
with Australians; iii) the idea of being
Sudanese; iv) the aesthetics of becoming
Sudanese-Australian.
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12. Literacies
 Peer and youth literacies
 The literacy of synthetic time
 War literacies
 Oral literacies
 Tribal literacies
 Physical literacies
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13. Young Muslims in Australia on
Facebook
 … 82% of the 15-18 age group asked said
that their primary focus on the Internet was
to socialize. 63% of the 18-25 age group
responded similarly, which points to the
ways in which globalised social life is
evolving under the influence of social
media. The sample of 323 young Muslims
was taken from the Sydney area, and the
urban focus of the research prejudices the
study in that all respondents should have
access to computers…
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14. Information Sources
- Top five websites Muslim youth have consumed
recently

15. 4 divisions of the unconscious
 1) The Australia that the young
Muslims inhabit; 2) Muslim identity
as it is portrayed in everyday life in
Australia; 3) the notion of being a
Muslim; 4) Muslim art, calligraphy,
the style and essence of what it
means to be a young Muslim.
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16. Literacies of Muslim youth
 In terms of multiple literacies, the
globalised young Muslims practise
political, visual, rhetorical, religious and
affective literacies online. The affective
literacies are especially important to
young Muslims using Facebook, as the
affective contrast in environmental and
digital realms is a powerful driver in their
learning.
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17. The politics of affect
 There is a politics of affect, which is
produced through young Muslims using
Facebook in Australia. By excluding
affect from their calculations, one could
say that neo-liberal civil society may be
at odds with the often-violent resurgence
in contemporary revolts against the
state…
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18. History
 In contrast, history may be cast as
narrative that emphasizes regularity and
predictability, in Massumi’s (2002)
words, history comprises a set of
“identified subjects and objects” whose
progress is given “the appearance of an
ordered, even necessary evolution…
contexts progressively falling into order”
(p. 218).
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19. Conclusion
 The results from this study show how
globalised identities determine
difference and complex, divergent
imaginations, which follow desires and
form new ways of looking at the world
from changing perspectives…
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