The sameness of World Cities provide a drastic example of the destructive power of globalization as we know it (Kadovic,2008). The reductionist emphasis of the "world class" on competition among cities generates predictable blandness. One could argue how we have moved a long way, from the much-maligned but socially, positively motivated "machines to live in" in the 1920s (Le Corbusier,1931) to the socially ill-intended machines to invest in, "running hard to keep up with the inflation of devalued signs of life" (Debord,1988). As Slavoj Zizek warns, the most dangerous aspect of that condition is its perceived inevitability, which conditions us to believe that "even if we dislike, question, and have tears from totalizing processes, there is not much we can do about it" (Zizek,2005).
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