Abstract
Of course the global and the local come together. And so do the universal and the particular. We know that, as well as including the local, whatever the global is it ‘is more than one but less than many’. But what is one? And where can the global one be found, and by whom? One can be studied only in its tensioned relation with the other. The suggestion is that the global and the local, and the large and the small, are effects of modes of ordering; that between them there is no more than ephemeral effects of scale, or effects of ever-changing contingent differences of relative quantities or positions (densities). But, then, how does the global end up being global or the large become large? I will explore this question by focusing on performances of mathematical discourses. How do mathematical discourses intermingle with heterogeneous networks conveying, shaping, and mobilizing intentional but nonsubjective strategies of framing the global as one? And how do heterogeneous networks always locally (partially) escape mathematical capture and constantly overflow often renewed mathematizing framings?
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