One of the greatest and most active Brazilian intellectuals intellectuals, geographer Milton Santos has achieved international recognition for his original thinking. This book brings together, in the form of interviews, his thoughts about modern geography, globalization, and the role of the intellectual and the university in society.

"I call globalization globalitarianism because we are living a new phase of totalitarianism. The political system uses contemporary technical systems to produce to produce the current globalization, leading us to forms of of economic relations that accept violence, that do not accept discussion, that demand immediate obedience."