Table of Contents
1 Between mixophilia and mixophobia 1
2 José Saramago: ways of being happy 7
3 Gregory Bateson and his third level of education 11
4 From closure of mind to ‘permanent revolution’ 15
5 Oak trees and ridiculously minute acorns 24
6 Looking for a genuine ‘cultural revolution’ 27
7 Depravation is the cleverest strategy of deprivation 31
8 Minutes to destroy, years to build 40
9 The young as a tip for the consumer industry 54
10 The effort to improve mutual understanding is a prolific source of human creativity 60
11 The unemployed can always play lotto, can’t they? 65
12 Disability, abnormality, minority as a political problem 74
13 Indignation and swarm- like political groupings 80
14 Defective consumers and never- ending minefields 86
15 Richard Sennett on difference 100
16 From Lacan’s ‘capitalist’ to Bauman’s ‘consumerist’ 112
17 Žižek and Morin on monotheism 121
18 Prouvést’s petite madeleine and consumerism 126
19 On fuels, sparks and fires 130
20 On glocalization coming of age 136