ABSTRACT
You are one of the very few sociologists-or even poets?—who has understood that our modernity is to be found principally in the play of simulacres and of appearances….
We are no longer in the world of alienation and it is therefore no longer possible to use arguments based on one’s own wretchedness, one’s own inauthenticity, one’s misfortune and bad conscience. It’s no longer possible either to hope to come to existence in and through the eye of the other for there is no longer a dialectic of identity. Therefore everyone is henceforth called upon to appear, just appear, without worrying too much about being. Hence the importance of the look….
