CLUZET Alain.
Wandering Identities: Towards a Standardized World?
Folio
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| N° d'inventaire | 26177 |
| Format | 12 x 17.5 |
| Détails | 144 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782889680641 |
This book questions the future of our societies, faced with widespread standardization that weakens both nature and humanity. It extends and broadens the study conducted in "Mégalopoles" on the impact of globalization on global cities.
Modernity has freed us from the constraints of the past, but we are now left to our own devices, weightless in a progressively standardized world. The standardization of the world is impoverishing the Earth and erasing its points of reference. It is multifaceted, affecting cities and the countryside alike, industry and services, cultures and lifestyles alike. It is accelerating environmental and identity crises. Nature is being plundered and artificialized, cities are being modeled, our traditional roots are being erased, our cultures are being forgotten, technology and the virtual world are being reified. But this global movement, although very rapid, is not inevitable.
Modernity has freed us from the constraints of the past, but we are now left to our own devices, weightless in a progressively standardized world. The standardization of the world is impoverishing the Earth and erasing its points of reference. It is multifaceted, affecting cities and the countryside alike, industry and services, cultures and lifestyles alike. It is accelerating environmental and identity crises. Nature is being plundered and artificialized, cities are being modeled, our traditional roots are being erased, our cultures are being forgotten, technology and the virtual world are being reified. But this global movement, although very rapid, is not inevitable.
Modernity has freed us from the constraints of the past, but we are now left to our own devices, weightless in a progressively standardized world. The standardization of the world is impoverishing the Earth and erasing its points of reference. It is multifaceted, affecting cities and the countryside alike, industry and services, cultures and lifestyles alike. It is accelerating environmental and identity crises. Nature is being plundered and artificialized, cities are being modeled, our traditional roots are being erased, our cultures are being forgotten, technology and the virtual world are being reified. But this global movement, although very rapid, is not inevitable.