Through the thought of various modern and contemporary philosophers, this book discusses the changing idea of culture and shows how much a different orientation of the world we inhabit is necessary and possible. Globalization, accelerated by new technologies, brings cultural spaces closer together and generates a wealth of social practices and forms of expression. This has an agglutinating effect in the cultural field: the heterogeneous cultural contents overlap and cross each other. Its boundaries or borders, whose forms are determined by an aura of authenticity, dissolve. Thus, cultures are freed from all seams, limitations or cleavages and open a path towards a hyperculture: they have to proceed with their defactification to become genuinely cultural, hypercultural. Do we live in a culture that gives us the freedom to disperse as happy "tourists" around the world? If so, are we a...read more