Abstract EN:

The analysis constructs a global explanatory model on the forms of organisation and lifeworld experience which are peculiar to the postindustrial society. A traversal methodological approach is used so as to combine problematics in the areas of control, legitimation, public sphere, risk, and fear of victimisation. It is argued that both the perception of the natural and social world in terms of menace and the automatic institutionalisation of all forms of social centrality give birth to new poles of stratification and institutionality; the use of socio-technological systems regulating individual access to desired material and cultural conditions of existence is instrumental in that process. The analysis concludes with an updated conception of the political in the capitalist societies at the end of the 20th century by indicating a series of new problematics with regard to domination, power, and institutionality.