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What is happening to us in the era of globalization? How is the development of modern communication technologies changing people and societies? Why is the intensification of interpersonal ties, economic and cultural relations accompanied not by international brotherhood, but by inter-ethnic conflicts? How do communicative equality and the accessibility of mass media to everyone give rise to revolutions? Why are the searches for truth turning into the power of post-truth? The book provides detailed definitions of globalization, communication and culture in their internal interrelationship. Along with a critical presentation of the thoughts of classical and contemporary thinkers (M. Heidegger, A. Schütz, J. Habermas, J. Rancière, C. Taylor, J.-L. Nancy, U. Kymlicka, etc.), the authors note the leading role of culture in its national manifestations as the main factor of resistance to globalization processes and, at the same time, their main motivator. The well-known phenomena of disputes and disagreements in modern international and local discourses provide grounds for rethinking the traditional view of communication as a universal means of understanding and reconciliation. The analysis of communication carried out in the book makes the connection between politics and culture clearer. Against the background of globalization and the competition of nations for recognition, the role of communication as the basis for the formation of identities - collective and individual, as well as theoretical ways of overcoming their conflicts, becomes clearer. The authors do not avoid the topic of the danger of degradation of the culture of discourse in the public sphere - a consequence of the dominance of information technologies in all spheres of life. Criticism of info-power, which causes the emergence of a depersonalized "world without reality", complements the complex picture of globalization along with examples of how communication contributes to the accumulation of experience for the creation of a new one.