forthcoming Alain Accardo, Commitments. Chronicles and other texts (2000-2010)
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Commitments Chronicles and other texts (2000-2010) Preface
Thierry Discepolo followed by a Interview with Paul Aries, Raphael Desanti, Sophie Divry Samuel Foutoyet, Cedric Lefebvre, and Giancarlo Rossi Agone
to be published on 20/01/2011
This set of texts - some of which have already been published (including in The Decay
or
The Sarkophage
), other unpublished or unavailable - is both an exercise in analysis of political news from Marxism and critical sociology, criticism of the media as instruments of propaganda, a socio-analysis of the middle classes and their function in the reproduction of social order. For the author, this approach has its source at the time of the war in Algeria, then a young student in philosophy he met Pierre Bourdieu and participates in its first field survey. Contents
between Fanon and Camus / The Algerian roots of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu / A scientist engaged. About Pierre Bourdieu A middle-class journalism / Lagardère Succession: the standard or huge? / Karl Kraus: against the empire of stupidity / A show ripping / The coelacanth and the political scientist / Bestiary 2007 / A real problem / Collusion / Exhortation to overhaul the anti-capitalist left / Courage, comrades! / Theory conspiracy / Long live change! / Plague Advertising / mediocrity / Down masks! / What rebuilding? / Neo-Taylorism / The Making of humanoid / Insurrection / miscommunication / Parlons Net! / How far we will fall? / The media circus / Autoplumage / Counter-Reformation / or The Babbit Néobarbares / False and forgery / The genius and audacity / The Year I to mirror Sarkozy / Hydra / You teach what? / Exercise Back / Finger of God / Voodoo / Jérémiades audiovisual / Hurrah for Obama / Mythology school / Lawyers Attorneys / Letter-lights Ouchronia / Big Brother / Spiral up / sauce / green (self-) mockery / Legality of immorality / The twelfth question / Panem et circenses / The comb-ass and rose-hips / Imagination at Pantheon / Be gay, laugh now! / World Vision / Let us empty the jar! / Sisachthie / The fetish culture / The hatred between the poor / Taratata rataplan plan / It's more complicated than that ...
Extracts
ideas, so just as they are, are nothing but ideas and does have never in history by revolutionizing themselves: there are those who received met the interests of social groups large enough and powerful that gave them the strength and impact necessary to break down the strongholds of conservatism. Intellectuals have nothing else to do but to express and to circulate ideas, explain, explain it without ceasing, against bad faith, the refusal to know, caricature and hatred that does not disarm, even cons the detestable propensity of many to play with ideas as with ornaments symbolic rather than seek ways to act actually on the real. Ideas rule the world, it is understood, it is still necessary that the people involved to want to get tired to follow them.
*** The war in Algeria was in many ways a turning point, for better or for worse, well beyond the theater of military operations, turning marked by profound changes in all areas, until 'the most intimate of individuals. For some, it was not easy but lived episode from start to finish like a radical rethinking of our world, both externally and internally. I would not say that the experience was absolutely identical to the aggregate Normale philosophy of peasant béarnaise, and for its students, the teacher Kabyle Abdelmalek Sayad and "French in Algeria" (actually the son of small- 'Neapolitan immigrants) than I was. But all things considered, we must all face the same fundamental questions. The big difference is that people like Bourdieu were significantly more mentally equipped than us to address them. But they also had to manufacture their own answers - even if they had already found "structural questions of [their] own thoughts" Husserl and others, as we wrote. [...]
Sayad and I, in fact, who were probably the oldest of his students (he was only twenty-eight years, four years older than us) were both struggling, each in its own way, with thorny problems of dual culture and decommissioning. Sayad as Kabyle highly educated and assimilated; me as a "miracle" school. Both at once very close to our environment respective original and yet already to light years. Both internally torn by conflicting doubts born of a war as civil and military, that torn populations which we belong. Both rolled back and terrified by the creeping fascism of our society. We felt the vital need to see clearly, analyze, find concepts that would direct a little chaos in which plunged the country and us. This intense need to consider abandoning him to his status as a teacher Sayad me and my studies in classical literature almost completed to start all studies in philosophy that we hoped they would bring us the good adaequatio rei et intellectus our aspiration.
***
What advertising has reached fever as the School, "that is hardly surprising. It gradually became the main educational body responsible for shaping the new type of human that claimed productivism capitalist consumers, individual subjected to the despotism of his insatiable desires of the moment and the essence of which tends to reduce social power to purchase. The evolution of capitalism has lowered a degree yet, through advertising, educational level of the mass of the population. Until then, this level was the worker's manual or intellectual, whose Republican School supposedly liberating, undertook to make a semi-well-formed robot, that his membership in the company reduced its work force. It was already very far from this human model defined by the Enlightenment, that of an individual citizen, based on its ability to reflect on the free use of his reason, the exercise of rights and duties of both personal and universal. Thanks technology advertising, the capitalist system has done to all the people one more step in the alienation. Companies tended to turn into helots disciplined workers who crossed their threshold. Advertising is now to transform men and women sleepwalkers hallucinated, perpetually in the grip of consumerist illusion, which most often dedicated their lives to fantasy and frustration, sometimes to the neurosis and anti-depressants. [...] Once again, the School did not see it coming. Under the guise of democratic access of the people supposed to know "issue of his chains," she did not know or want to see that her work had resulted in massive legitimate objective, through the distribution of cultural capital, the submission of the people to " elites already favored by the distribution of economic capital.
The same ideological blindness - that had prevented the school from the early twentieth century
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understand how irreplaceable part she took in the social control of the working masses by the power of capital - has prevented the School the end of the century to identify under what disguise symbolic wolf, that is to say "the new spirit of capitalism", was about to enter the fold. When the working classes were still "dangerous classes," School's indoctrinating them preaching the good moral family. In a society that changes in the capitalist economy "moyennisée 'aesthetic alibi came to add to the arsenal of the legitimacy of the system. This is more in the name of the Good, the True, the Fair and Useful, but on behalf of the Beautiful, the Beautiful, sensitive to the primacy of the intelligible and the spiritual body, the immediate pleasure of delayed gratification that advertising 's has permeated all sectors of social practice, including the School. [...] This touches the complicated relationship of complicity and resistance to both objective and to some extent involuntary, in part conscious and intentional, that the middle classes have continued to maintain the capitalist system has generated, and which they have consistently provided their collaboration while criticizing.
sociologist, Alain Accardo is the author of
Introduction to a critical sociology
(Agone, 2006), Journalists precarious, journalists daily (Agone, 2007) and Petit-bourgeois Gentleman (2009).
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