Sublime

Very large social units are always, in a sense, imaginary. Or, to put it in a slightly different way: there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, phenomena that exist largely, o

Durkheims Begriff der Anomie

Cadrer par l’islam, c’est laisser moins de place pour questionner les processus de racisation qui traverse la société française (Brun, Cosquer, 2022) : les effets de la colonisation sur les imaginaires et les comportements, les discriminations fondées sur les origines supposées de la part des services de la République, sont alors invisibilisés. Cet

Vattimo rules out any sort of public display of identity, particularly religious identity, because of the way in which such displays cut against the secular organization of life.

It was a prophetic work. In it he argued that the breakdown of family, community, and faith had left us fundamentally insecure, deprived of the traditional supports of identity and worth. He did not live to see the age of the selfie, the Facebook profile, designer labels worn on the outside, and the many other forms of “advertisements for myself,”

The postmodern individual suffers from a strange type of dissociation, a new form of split personality. We condemn the system, are hostile to it, and feel powerless to change it. Yet at the same time we act in a way that reinforces and even extends it. Every decision we make — what to eat and drink, what to wear, how to get about, where to go on ho

La machine « nous fait perdre l’habitude de nous diriger nous-mêmes et nous accoutume toujours davantage à consentir, dans les marges d’un pouvoir véritablement disciplinaire, à notre propre aliénation, à notre propre mutilation (Gori, Del Volgo, 2009, p. 123).