«Are we confronting a new culture-global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values?
Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values. Having spread across generations under neoliberalism and the internet, youth culture is now individualized, ersatz.
Without a shared culture, everything becomes an explicit code of how to speak and act, often online. Identities are now defined by socially fragmenting personal traits, creating affinity-based sub-cultures seeking safe spaces: universities for the left, gated communities and hard borders for the right.
Increased left- and right-wing references to "identity" fail to confront this deeper crisis of culture and community. Our only option, Roy argues, is to restore social bonds at the grassroots or citizenship level». Saiba mais.
Olivier Roy's new book explains today's fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values. Having spread across generations under neoliberalism and the internet, youth culture is now individualized, ersatz.
Without a shared culture, everything becomes an explicit code of how to speak and act, often online. Identities are now defined by socially fragmenting personal traits, creating affinity-based sub-cultures seeking safe spaces: universities for the left, gated communities and hard borders for the right.
Increased left- and right-wing references to "identity" fail to confront this deeper crisis of culture and community. Our only option, Roy argues, is to restore social bonds at the grassroots or citizenship level». Saiba mais.
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A propósito:
Começa assim: «In a famously misinterpreted conversation in 1971 as China opened to the West, Henry Kissinger asked Premier Zhou En Lai what he thought of the French Revolution. “It is too early to tell,” Zhou replied, a quip referenced endlessly as evidence of the long-term perspective of Chinese wisdom. It turned out, as later revealed by Zhou’s interpreter, the premier was actually referring to the student revolt in Paris in May 1968, just a few years earlier!
Nearly half a century on, it still may be too early to tell, but the French scholar Olivier Roy takes up where Zhou left off in his deeply insightful new book, “The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics And The Empire of Norms.” (...)».
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