Dis: connectivity in Global History

Etymologically speaking, crises are dramatic—perhaps even life-threatening—phenomena (Koselleck, 1982). So far in this still-young twenty-first century, individual crises might seem temporary, but the state of crisis that plagues society more broadly seems all too permanent. For years now, we have been enduring a constant, deeply transformative state of emergency, consisting of overlapping economic and social crises (Macho, 2020). Not long after the horrific attacks of September 11th and the subsequent “Global War on Terror,” much of the world suffered a dire financial crisis starting in 2008. Just as the global economy gradually started to recover, public consciousness began