SYMPTOMS OF GLOBALIZATION - OR, MAPPING REFLEXIVITY IN THE POSTMODERNAGE

Questions of reflexive risk assessment and evaluation are intrinsic to the nature of political management in the world of late modernity. Th is paper critically examines the nature of reflexivity in postmodern p olitical conditions, I draw on psychoanalytic and postmodern theories of the phantasy networks which underpin contemporary institutional lif e, especially focusing on the expert systems of political management a nd bureaucracy, I conclude by suggesting some psychoanalytic and socio political alternatives for the mapping of political reflexivity in rel ation to individual and collective autonomy.