![]() In the other, unparalleled wealth, computerized production, scientific and medical discoveries unimaginable a century ago as well as an endless variety of commercial and cultural pleasures, seem to have rendered utopian fantasy and speculation as boring and antiquated as pre-technological narratives of space flight. In one of these worlds, the disintegration of the social is so absolute-misery, poverty, unemployment, starvation, squalor, violence and death-that the intricately elaborated social schemes of utopian thinkers become as frivolous as they are irrelevant. Does this peculiar entity still have a social function? If it no longer does so, then perhaps the explanation lies in that extraordinary historical dissociation into two distinct worlds which characterizes globalization today. ![]() Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |