ŠTA JESTE A ŠTA TREBA BITI IDENTITET?
WHAT IS IDENTITY, AND WHAT SHOULD IT BE?

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author examines the relationship between the complex notion of identity and social ontology in an attempt to find answers to some disturbing questions: What is identity, and what should it be? Who are the enemies of identity in modern society, and why? What are the central premises of a “strong theory of identity” and a “weak theory of identity?” Who is behind the process of globalization and the creation of the idea of transnational identity, and why? What part do speculative international capital and cultural capital play in globalization? What is the true background to the new social ontology in Europe? Indicatively, the author directs the spotlight onto the relationship between the political economy of national identity, an “anchored identity” which it creates, and the political economy of transnational identity and “mobile identity” or “identity in action”, which seeks a form of functioning through the liberalization of society and the individual. This kind of “liberalization” is taking place by entering into monetary and military alliances, through the instrumentalization of cultural capital and the hybridization of races, nations and cultures to create an international society with interactive paradigms inherited from the old multinational empires, problematic or democratic “consociations,” immigrant societies and nation-states. The author perceives the project of transnational socialization, as the main instrument of the process of creating a new social ontology in Europe, not as a project of inverting national socialization, but as an interactive and recursive reaction in which tolerant people are those who need to be tolerated at another level.

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