The volume examines the process of globalization from a genealogical point of view. By doing so, it offers a contribution to the understanding of the deep and critical spatial transformation reshaping our world from both a political and a conceptual point of view, taking into consideration recent developments including Brexit and the politics of Donald Trump. Focusing his analysis on the natural element of ?air?, Vegetti provides an original approach to globalization. Following in the the footsteps of the German jurist and political theorist Carl Schmitt, Vegetti defines our global age as characterized by the transformation of the air into a concrete social space, first through the advent of airplanes, radio waves, and radar and now in the present-day structure of global networks. AUTHOR: Matteo Vegetti (Milan, 1971) is a philosopher and Professor of Theories of Space at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland. He teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (USI) and at the University of Bergamo. His principle works include ?La fine della storia? (Milano 2000), ?Lessico socio-filosofico della citta? (Varese 2002); ?Hegel e i confini dell'Occidente? (Napoli 2004), ?Filosofie della metropoli? (a cura di, Roma, 2009) and ?L'invenzione del globo? (Torino, 2017).
