Original scientific paper

Social Change in Europe: The Relevance of Poststurcturalism

Branka Mraović

Abstract

In the focus of the analysis is Foucault's (2001) thesis: perhaps the goal of today's world is not to reveal what we are but rather to reject what we are. The “deconstruction” inherent in the poststructuralist analysis looks into the ways in which managerial discourse privileges certaine types of values such as feasibility and effectiveness, while excluding, marginalising or instrumentalising others. Pointing out to the partiality of language used to determine the various contents of a “descriptive ethics”, for example, an ethical code which aims to establish the power of management as an objective “régime of truth”, poststructuralism gives a serious blow to the “descriptive ethics” because it questions its coherence. What radical critical perspective mostly objects to Foucault is that he does not seem to admit that identity and non-identity mutually constitute each other. It is this aspect of “negative dialectics” that is overlooked by postmodernists, which is the reason why difficulties are encountered in creating socially efficient political project. The goal of the critical holistic praxis is to transcend the alienating effects of capitalist social reproduction and the Internet will be a privileged medium.

Keywords

TRUTH; DISCOURSE; BIO-POWER; INTERNET

Hrčak ID:

13685

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/13685

Publication date:

30.6.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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