In a field of discourse heavily spiced with its on codes and jargon, this author brings refreshing transcendent insights to basic questions. He has made a point of showing P-C's weaknesses as well as its strengths. And, at last, a definition of the post-colonial as an abstraction for global, if not universal application..."It refers to a general process of decolonisation which, like colonisation itself, has marked the colonising societies aspowerfully as it has the colonised (of course, in different ways)...Indeed, one of the principle values of the term `post-colonial' has been to direct our attention to the many ways in which colonisation was never simply external to the societies of the imperial metropolis.

Hall shows that this conception of colonisation/post-dcolonisation leads to an understanding of "...its global and transcultural context,(rendering) colonisation has (an) ethnic absolutism an increasingly untenable cultural strategy."

Hall reaches a higher level of abstraction by stating;"What, in their different ways these theoretical descriptions are attempting to construct is a notion of a shift or a transition conceptualised as the reconfiguration of a field, rather than as a movement of linear transcendence between two mutually exclusive states...which assumes that all major historical shifts are driven by a necessitarian logic towards a telelogical end."

Hall ends his review with a look to the future of P-C, and finds that it is uniquely situated to conceptualise the nature of expanding new golgal capitalist order(s). I personally find this development helpful in understanding our place in this ever new world order, whatever it may be. How this plays itself out in the art field is yet another question that has reached its zero silent point in the art community. In otherwords, is it now possible to conceive of an art that addresses itself to the global order, to render as visible the logic that proples our actions, and shows that point of it.