Thursday 25^th February I went to view a seminar by the renowned author and critic Jonathan Harris (author of ‘The New Art History a Critical Introduction’. The lecture was called Globalization and Contemporary Art and was an overview of the topic of his new book however, what I really took away from the experience was his delivery. Verging on performative, the way the lecture was presented summed up the content of the lecture itself. While a rolling projection of images of big, blockbuster shows at the Tate Modern’s Unilever series flashed by on the screen, punctuated with rough texts from Harris’ book, Harris talked over, not referring to the images at all but bombarding his audience with information about recession, the spontaneous public mourning at the death of Michael Jackson and the speed of air travel infection of swine flu. What better way to make people aware of the effects of globalization and technology than bombard them with visual imagery, stats, figures and cameras.