Sublime

Est-il possible de faire entendre à ceux qu’enthousiasme encore la mondialisation-moins, qu’il est normal, qu’il est juste, qu’il est indispensable de vouloir conserver, maintenir, assurer l’appartenance à une terre, un lieu, un sol, une communauté, un espace, un milieu, un mode de vie, un métier, un savoir-faire ? Précisément pour rester capable d

When Foucault imagined life as a work of art he imagined an art object. Arendt, in contrast, imagined life as a narrative, authored by the social collectivity rather than by the lone individual.

Germans talk about the phenomenon of das Verschwinden der Zukunft, the disappearance of the future, and a widening gulf between what people hope for and what they think is likely to happen.

Back in 1989, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama already noted that we had arrived in an era where life has been reduced to “economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.”

With the emergence of an emphasis on self-fulfillment, one finds there is no end-point for self-making: individuals can continuously pursue shifting and subjective criteria for success.

Globalization

So there are patterned, regular and rule-bound systems; these rule-bound workings can come to generate various unintended effects; and unpredictable events disrupt and abruptly transform what appear to be rule-bound and enduring patterns. This is a view which emphasizes networks of people, of systems, of societies as fundamentally historical, and w

A paper reality is being created that has less and less to do with actual reality.