<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This essay presents an analysis of the structural and cultural characteristics of postmodern society’s new capitalism, underscoring the fact that uncertainty, flexibility, mobility and risk are the latest categories of contemporary life, with which we need to interact and communicate constantly.</p><p>It is necessary to aim at governing uncertainty by activating a new logic of the diffused empowerment of people aimed at promoting value for all the stakeholders by sharing objectives, development plans and the joint redesign of technologies, structures and processes. This is a perspective which places the person at the centre of strategic action, relaunches a New Humanism, invests in the cultural dimension, enhances that of value with a view to surpassing theutilitarian and technocentric paradigm while asserting a new anthropocentric</p></abstract>

This essay presents an analysis of the structural and cultural characteristics of postmodern society’s new capitalism, underscoring the fact that uncertainty, flexibility, mobility and risk are the latest categories of contemporary life, with which we need to interact and communicate constantly.It is necessary to aim at governing uncertainty by activating a new logic of the diffused empowerment of people aimed at promoting value for all the stakeholders by sharing objectives, development plans and the joint redesign of technologies, structures and processes. This is a perspective which places the person at the centre of strategic action, relaunches a New Humanism, invests in the cultural dimension, enhances that of value with a view to surpassing theutilitarian and technocentric paradigm while asserting a new anthropocentric

Unexpected action and insecurity: some structural characteristics of postmodernity

Geopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal

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This essay presents an analysis of the structural and cultural characteristics of postmodern society’s new capitalism, underscoring the fact that uncertainty,...

Unexpected action and insecurity: some structural characteristics of postmodernity

Pubblicato online: 29 gen 2021

Pagine: 26 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gssfj-2020-0010

Parole chiave
Postmodern society, flexible capitalism, innovation, uncertainty, mobility, risk

© 2020 Antonio Cocozza, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Unexpected action and insecurity: some structural characteristics of postmodernity

Pubblicato online: 29 gen 2021

Pagine: 26 - 41

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gssfj-2020-0010

Parole chiavePostmodern society, flexible capitalism, innovation, uncertainty, mobility, risk

© 2020 Antonio Cocozza, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Parole chiave
Postmodern society, flexible capitalism, innovation, uncertainty, mobility, risk