The word "Globalization" is an increasing part of our contemporary vocabulary and a term that remains elusive regarding any singularity of interpretation. Nevertheless it is understood that the phenomenon of globalization constitutes a very real and dynamic bundle of processes affecting the totality of the world. Globalization is not by any means a new event but rather a continuum that has deep historical roots in the European expansionism of the 15th century. Since the rise of capitalism the ultimate dream of a global economy has been pursued on every possible front. The cultural, economic, and social realms have constituted the battlegrounds where European and American interests have applied their normative colonialist forces.

The realm of language, in all its aspects, has been the fundamental instrument with which the new subjectivities of the "globalized" have been reformed. Unfortunately the constitutive role of language remains immensely marginalized to academic discourse and it is only viewed with skepticism in the larger world. There, the Cartesian paradigm of interiority still governs notions of the self and as such produces and supports representational systems such as those of religion, nationalism, patriotism and the larger claims to truth and absolute values that those perceptions generally represent.

It would be only too easy to assume that globalization is by any means a discrete, coherently identifiable phenomenon. It would also be extremely simplistic to assume that any one value interpretation would encompass the myriad of effects that this phenomenon entails.

What seems clear is that the forces of the market override all other considerations and that local cultures as represented in verbal and visual languages, local economies, local histories are being erased as if hit by a powerful forces that steadily seek to re-represent subjectivity and desire. Unfortunately those affected by these new configurations are seldom encouraged to examine the hidden premises implied by this new hegemonic panorama.

The desiring subject more often than not is absorbed into this matrix of representations which in turn are perceived as intrinsically necessary and promising a form of deliverance from often abject poverty into the illusion of participation into the pleasures of abundance of the dominant culture. Artists can potentially disrupt official language by destabilizing its signifying relations. The net art community is certainly working on an immensely important front. Through each of the tactical interventions presented here audiences are introduced into different cosmologies. All of them devoted to the intelligent and playful production of doubt and critical thinking.