The pathologies of the new social textures of late capitalism

Abstract

One of the points of agreement in most of the critical diagnoses of the present is that, after the post-war context, Western society underwent a series of far-reaching economic, technological, political, ideological and cultural transformations that are what today give sustenance and texture to contemporary social reality, to the extent that we speak of it as a "consumer society", an "information society" or a "society of emptiness", to mention only a few formulas, in an attempt to grasp conceptually what is most characteristic and specific of late capitalism.