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Un individu peut avoir une identité multiple et complexe, se sentir en même temps Breton, Français, Européen, humain, Franco-Portugais, Franco-Éthiopien… Il tire sa liberté de sa capacité à jongler entre ses diverses appartenances. De même, un citoyen exerce sa souveraineté à différents niveaux. Il participe au gouvernement de sa commune, de sa
... See moreRaphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)
Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a
... See moreThe man who discovered media codes and how to resist them
religion” as I use it here does not refer to a system that has necessarily to do with a concept of God or with idols or even to a system perceived as religion, but to any group-shared system of thought and action that offers the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.
Erich Fromm • To Have or To Be? (Continuum Impacts)
No community, in the strong sense, can form in the society of transparency. Instead, chance gatherings [Ansammlungen] or crowds [Vielheiten] of isolated individuals, or egos, emerge; they pursue a mutual interest or cluster around a product line (“brand communities”).