La consumation de la puissance : l’apocalypse, une exigence anthropologique de tous les temps
Discussing the end of the world must be considered as a legitimate mode of contesting the magnificent future that in every transitional period, the power paints for us. Presenting the better world to come can take multiple appearances, fission nuclear power, robot android, transhumanism, GMO, synthe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Socio-anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/socio-anthropologie/1578 |
| Summary: | Discussing the end of the world must be considered as a legitimate mode of contesting the magnificent future that in every transitional period, the power paints for us. Presenting the better world to come can take multiple appearances, fission nuclear power, robot android, transhumanism, GMO, synthetic meat, prostheses, NBIC, but it always imposes the immediate presence of revealed future and steals our freedom. Just like the beings of John’s Apocalypse, we are confronted with a disintegration of the sense, we live in the world but we cannot build it any more nor even maintain it as it is. The faith in the Reason and in its works faints. As a result, the apocalyptic modality of perception of future, far from being a hallucinatory tool becomes a sincere expression of the collective malaise, highlighting the contradictions which the human beings feel obliged to assume in their everyday life. |
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| ISSN: | 1276-8707 1773-018X |