"On the front of geopolitics, we find increasing resistance against American imperialism along with the homogenisation that it brought about. Such resistance in the name of national security ends up in calls for autonomy and state sovereignty on one hand, and a multipolar world on the other. But how different are they from the call for Heimat, for the return to the state in the name of the people? That is however not a solution that we should look to in order to resolve the planetary crisis in the twenty-first century, since increasing competition between states will never put an end to wars and to the intensifying exploitation of the planet. The longing for Heimat has become a global melodrama in the past century, expressing itself as antagonism between self and other, leading to conflicts of all kinds. Therefore, we must envision our journey by looking at it from the standpoint of Heimatlosigkeit."

— Post-Europe by Yuk Hui (Page 119)