Dans les sociétés complexes, la multiplicité des sphères fonctionnelles et leur intrication dans le jeu social empêchent de savoir de façon claire et absolue quelle est la sphère prépondérante pour la légitimité de l'action. L'économique est-il supérieur au politique, ou bien est-ce le droit, le social ou la science ?
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Notre époque a ceci de spécial : elle a fait naître des entités hybrides, situées entre ce qui est réel et ce qui ne l'est pas. Notre environnement quotidien laisse émerger les balbutiements de cette nouvelle réalité virtuelle. Un enfant de cinq ans sait aujourd'hui déplacer une souris d'ordinateur ;
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When war causes thunder to rumble somewhere in the world, when a crisis of global proportions breaks out, when nature is unleashed at the end of the oceans, then our contemporaries launch their pleas to the "international community". As if this misty concept was supposed to represent the awareness of
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Il est aujourd'hui de plus en plus fréquent de recourir au mot « humanité » pour désigner notre appartenance commune à une espèce dont on prend chaque jour conscience qu'elle est menacée par elle-même. Pourtant, d'un point de vue social et historique, l'homme en soi n'existe pas. Notre appartenance à
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Jusqu'à présent, la société contemporaine était fondée sur une exigence d'adhésion. Au delà du principe d'engagement conventionnel, l'adhésion est personnalisée, elle signifie que l'on agit selon son libre vouloir, en connaissance de cause. Ce principe est à la source du mariage, de l'entrée dans un mouvement politique ou de l'investissement
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La télévision, on le sait, joue aujourd'hui un rôle majeur dans l'uniformité de la représentation du réel. Elle y procède par banalisation. On prête aux présentateurs du journal télévisé l'aveu de montrer, chaque soir, « un monde lisse ». Le fer de lance de ce processus de banalisation uniforme est
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Dans La Crise de la culture (1), Hannah Arendt avait affirmé que la continuité d'une civilisation ne peut être assurée que si règne une autorité qui amène les nouveaux venus à accepter, comme une valeur absolue, des règles préétablies . Cette autorité ne devait s'appuyer ni sur la violence ni
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The traditional media form puts limits on the path to the real. The medium, whatever it is, always puts itself in an intermediate position - it is in its etymological nature - between the real and the spectator. Its function is to bring the real to the spectator. Live is, in this
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The air of time sometimes becomes unbreathable. When poverty appears at every street corner, when precariousness nibbles away at ordinary lives like a sneaky gangrene, when inequalities look like endless abysses, suffocation and anger reveal the tragedy of impotence. Indignation in the face of social suffering
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Crisis is the catch-all word of our contemporary era: overused, tinkered with, overworked, it comes into play for everything and expresses its confusion: crisis of society, of the couple, of the family, of politics, of meaning, of oil, of world finance, of civilization, of values, of the
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Whereas seeing concerns the visible and its visual representations of the world, from the outside, from the other, believing can be exercised in at least two ways: belief and credibility. Belief involves the impression of believability, of verisimilitude; whereas credibility involves the feeling of truth and
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Reinventing the meaning of politics Today's political triumph consists in the monopolization of the eyes. Contemporary political art is that of being noticed, of appearing. Politics is thus, more than ever, the object of unlimited observation; it is hyper-observed (1) , which is not without consequences for nature.
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The ultimate determining unit of survival of every human being is the whole of humanity. It is the end point of the evolutionary mechanism in which we are engaged. The expansion on all continents of globalization, the global development of hyperinformation, the defection of nation-states to supra-national entities, the emergence of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village", the rise of the "global village".
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The dilated present is the space-time of the present man whose consciousness becomes Odyssean (1) . In his eternal present, man does not stop walking, quenching his thirst that devours him to try the adventure of the elsewhere of time. The same adventure as that of Odysseus abandoning Penelope and his island of Ithaca, or the island of Ithaca.
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The information was not invented by humans. It is life itself. Credit Illustration © Denis Leenhardt Erwin Schrödinger, founding father of quantum mechanics, published in 1944 a small book with a simple but ambitious title: What is life? In a dazzling intuition, he saw that the
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Socialization is traditionally a condition of individual awareness. Norbert Elias taught us that "it is only because men live in the society of others that they can feel themselves to be individuals different from others. "Socialization is not only what makes it possible
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By the end of the 20th century, "fatigue of being oneself" took precedence over neurotic anxiety, which was the dominant disease in the 19th century (1). (1) Today's society imposes levels of demands that are increasingly unbearable for the individual, leaving the field open for new suffering. The neurotic suffers because he or she
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The universality and diversity of the knowledge available through hyperinformational flows calls for the collectivisation of knowledge for the first time. It is impossible today for a single human being or a single group to master all the knowledge made available to them on digital networks. "Encyclopedia" meant a circle
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The predominance of information-emotions that pervade the entire media sphere (whether informative, entertaining or advertising) leads, at times, to a spectacular aggregation of individuals. The examples are numerous and everyone can measure the acceleration of the phenomenon. Two cases can be distinguished: those that are
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What we see today is a profusion of technologies designed to increase intelligence. But whose intelligence is it, that of humans or that of machines increasingly designed to hybridize with the intelligence of humans. What is the project of this immense technological deployment? Sculpture
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