Hisham Nazer, chairman of the Nazer Group of Saudi Arabia, former minister of planning,former minister of petroleum, and chairman of Saudi Aramco, has written a powerful andprovocative book. In this highly original tour de force, Nazer analyzes the deleterious effects ofthe technological globalization of information on the cultural integrity of Third World nations andsets forth a strategy of resistance for the developing world. The work is directed at intellectuals inthese countries, whom he challenges to “not just exist in this world; [but to]create our own world.” Rejecting the narrow definition of culture as“object-focused” acts and artifacts, he argues that culture should be understood as“the collective and dynamically active perspectives of living individuals.”