A note on the concept of modernity

(It prevents the reader that this is rather long) Modernity is always one of the concepts of critical sociology. You can argue that the birth of the discipline is concerned with trying to explain the social changes that we have come to call modernity, and that sociology as a discipline is the social science that […]

An idea about the Capitalism of the Information

Before I forget, and it is not that very good or certainly very original (I have to look to who already happened), but it may be useful to develop it later. The contradiction between the rationality of knowledge-that requires advertising and free access to information – and the instrumental rationality -which requires property to be […]

The End of Certainty

A feature that attracts attention when one reads almost any text of traditional philosophy -say, until before the TWENTIETH century – is the centrality of the pursuit of a certain knowledge, or indeed the conflación of the idea of knowledge with certain knowledge and reliable. What has no solid base, non-negotiable, it’s not worth much […]

fear atavistic of the elite in Chile

Some months ago I commented in any entry of the social order in Chile is really fragile (link here): the elite does not know how to operate in a society mobilized and that their reaction to this is usually violence. Reading yesterday’s ‘Santiago de Chile. History of an urban society’ Armando Ramon (Catalonia 2007) I […]

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