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• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Couto, Maria João (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Philosophy, city and public space

Pages: 143-150

ISBN: 978-972-36-1709-2

Publisher: Afrontamento

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > Philosophy

Other information

Abstract (EN): Henri-Pierre Jeudy describes societies today as overloaded. Not in the sense that they have an excessive amount of objects or people, which is arguable at best, but rather that societies today are overloaded with meaning. The profusion of discourses and images in contemporary society render the objects and people themselves insignificant, encouraging particularly growing indifference to a world of images and words that is not anchored in a pre-existing reality. The information mass media produces and circulates, incessantly and in all directions, constitutes its own referent. In other words, represented reality is considered expressed reality, which, according to L. Sfez, has fallen into the tautism that characterises modern society.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific