Empire. Jos; Charlotte; Charles

In 'Empire' the key element to understand here is that globalization cannot be understood as a simple process of de-regulating markets. The term 'Empire' makes allusion to a very Foucault type of situation, where we are subjected to a power that is defused or decentralized but all seeing. The flow of people and information is deemed too unruly to be monitored from a single source. The world they describe is one that abandons the old idea of a ruling class for a more complex system of inequality. Everything is blurred beyond logical interpretation. This particular event (Empire) acts as a kind of prophecy.