To be sure, the impact of deterritorialization, social interconnectedness, and social acceleration are by no means universal or uniform: migrant workers engaging in traditional forms of low-wage agricultural labor in the fields of southern California, for example, probably operate in a different spatial and temporal context than the Internet entrepreneurs of San Francisco or Seattle.
After Ryan McNamara's previous Performa commission Meem, a story ballet about the internet, it will be interesting to see how Huxtable's interpretation of the hidden corners of human experience on the Web will add to what may be a growing genre of performance art inspired by virtual media and the social interconnectedness of the internet age.
Given the social interconnectedness of the television world and the gay-sex-joke imperative for male comedians, I think it improbable that more than 10% of the male comics in America have not offered to have sexual intercourse with one another.
Jennifer Burns, who wrote the definitive biography of Rand, says that 'whereas traditional conservatism emphasized duties, responsibilities, and social interconnectedness, at the core' of Rand's ideology 'was a rejection of moral obligations to others.'".
In this view, present-day intellectual interest in the problem of globalization can be linked directly to the emergence of new high-speed technologies that tend to minimize the significance of distance and heighten possibilities for deterritorialization and social interconnectedness.
While our nineteenth-century predecessors understandably marveled at the railroad or the telegraph, a comparatively vast array of social activities is now being transformed by innovations that accelerate social activity and considerably deepen longstanding trends towards deterritorialization and social interconnectedness.
Fifth, globalization should be understood as a multi-pronged process, since deterritorialization, social interconnectedness, and acceleration manifest themselves in many different (economic, political, and cultural) arenas of social activity.
People feel good when they help others, but feel even better when their donations are made through social interconnectedness.
Status updates and tweets have a way of wending their way back to scorned exes, thanks to the interconnectedness of social media.
Because of the interconnectedness of social media platforms and the rapidly growing expansion of personal-cluster networks, management teams can be tied up for weeks in such a crisis (metaphorically speaking), unable to do anything besides try to contain the damage.
