Global modernity as a contemporary condition is marked not by the disintegration of modernity,but by its reconfiguration around a global center,albeit of necessity an absent center.

• 全球化的现代性,作为当代的条件,不是以现代性的瓦解为标志,而是以其围绕一个全球性中心的重构为标志,尽管必然是一个缺席的中心。