ABSTRACT
Starting from Max Weber’s idea of Entzauberung, I propose a self-socio-analysis in which I analyse my bodily strategies of everyday resistance in the struggle between a kind of Protestant ethic of academic labour and the contemporary need for hedonism and magic.
I conduct this analysis through the lens of the micro-, meso- and macro-sociology of everyday life, rooting my work on mixed and reflexive methodological approach.
As a human being, my quest for ‘magic’ develops through the practice of oriental disciplines and martial arts. Their rituals, practices and ways of being provide a world that is Other, with ecological equilibrium between the body and the cosmos and thus a different perspective on space and time. As part of my experience, some typical features of the present age, that constitute the critical aspects to deal with day to day, strongly emerge. These features create a fracture between the magic world of the ecological equilibrium of oriental disciplines’ practice, and the rational irrationality of the world of precarious academic work, with its needs and obligations
