How can we speak of social transformations? History gives the appearance of being written as it unfolds: image events are becoming the only reality. The landscape of ideas seems to be building back on the ruins of ideologies. Theoretical violence has been retired to the museum of thought, even if the theory market is doing well. When the irresistable rise of ethics is founded on the common search for consensus, critical virulance is limited by a continuous game of social signs.
Table of Contents:
Social Tableaux: the marketing of concepts, theories coming and going
The Power of Ethics: moral virginity, ideological remains, good conscience
Epidemiological Theory
Everyday Medusas: image-events, the collapse of meaning, phantoms of death
Conclusion
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