%0 Journal Article
%T Think Globally, Study Locally. Tyranny of the Moment, Structural Violence and Modern World-system
%A Nowak, Andrzej W.
%J Arts & Cultural Studies Review
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/20843860PK.13.014.1279
%N Issue 2 (16)
%P 148-166
%K Actor-Network Theory, world-system analysis, holistic/ecological ontology, “ontological imagination”, “tyranny of the moment”
%@ 1895-975X
%D 2013
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/myslec-globalnie-badac-lokalnie-tyrania-chwili-przemoc-strukturalna-a-nowoczesny-system-swiat
%X 
	Article is a trying to merge two theories: actor-network theory (ANT) and world-system analysis (WSA). Such a synthesis gives us an opportunity to combine an ethnographic approach, focused on actors analysis of ANT, with a networked, global perspective proposed by WSA. Both theories share the same type of holistic/ecological ontology of human societies. This similarity is fully visible if we compare a notion of the collective (Latour) and a notion of world-system (WSA). This is challenge to traditional, modernist views of social ontology. Author propose a concept of “ontological imagination”, as a solution. This is proposition a radicalized version of “sociological imagination (C. W. Mills), more suitable to technoscientific societies.
	In the paper the theoretical considerations are supplemented by a case study about “tyranny of the moment” as an example of acceleration in contemporary culture. Article propose model of social time in global context. Time is treated as a very important factor in global inequalities within structures if modern world-system.