Overcoming the market/state binary code

• Published in: Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking Vol. 1; pp. 35 - 50
• Main Author: Donati, Pierpaolo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2021
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Reflexive Consumption; Pupil Premiums; Life Styles; Health Care Assistants; Good Life; Social Stock Exchange; Monetary Equivalence; Community Interest Companies; High Social Integration; Chronic Crisis; Vice Versa; Low Social Integration; Civil Society; Reliable Social Network; Observable Multiplication; Low Profit Limited Liability Companies; Societal Configuration; Alternative Investment Market; Lab Configuration; Economic Political Systems; Non-profit Sectors; Violated
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003146698-2
• ISBN: 9780367705121; 0367705125; 9780367705138; 0367705133

This chapter deals with the recurrent societal crises connected to the processes of globalisation. The argument is that, in order to avoid permanent societal crises, we have to break away from the self-referential logic of the lib/lab configuration of society. Such a new set-up shall be capable of allowing for the emergence of new social subjects that can generate and adopt certain ethical standards of conduct and change the economic-political systems. This transformation should be structural. Niklas Luhmann would say that this is not possible, because - in his view - society operates with autopoietic mechanisms insensitive to social subjectivities. The chapter challenges Luhmann's sociology by showing why and how the emergence of a new society is as possible as it is necessary.