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the increasing integration
between agriculture and
tourism (with the implicit
role of the natural and cultural heritage ); in the industrial field of "machines
that make machines" (the
real cutting edge of Italian
manufacture).
cle and in the socio-political debate, begins to assert its self-consistency. In
the tectonic movements
that lead us forward, "the
remnant wins": that which
does not access to the stage and to the lights of visibility. It is from the "great
remnant" that the re-apThe society of “the rem- propriation of our collectinant”
ve identity can restart.
In the earlier stages of development, the question
of social recognition was
directed to the world of
social representation, to
the socio-political dialectics and to state power. But
today these are not the right calls, because all three
realities are in deep crisis.
And because the society
now seems unwilling to
speak as a subject of question. It expresses itself, instead, in the spontaneous
dynamic described above,
yet considered as a residual: a "remnant", in comparison to the big themes
described by the mass
communication. But the
"remnant", which has not
yet entered in the chroni-
"The remnant has marked
the history of the Italian
development of the last
fifty years, which is also
the history of Censis who
described it. What does
remain today of the great globalization process
seen as westernization of
the world? The polycentrism of many different developments and the difficult growth of a polyarchy,
"said Giuseppe De Rita,
President of Censis, illustrating the annual report
of the institute. "In our
story, the remnant of the
myth of big business and
of the frontiers was the under the counter economy
and the development
of self-employment. The
remnant of the myth of
the complex organization
and of Fordism was the
small business and the
molecular
professionalization. The remnant of
the class struggle in the
big factories has been
the long drift of middle
class. The remnant of the
attention to the hegemony
of the ruling class was the
multiplication of the intermediate actors and the
culture of the accompaniment. The remnant of
the primacy of the metropolis was the localism of
districts and villages. The
remnant of the carefree
season of consumption is
the wisdom of the sober
consumer. The remnant
of the long season of the
primacy of ideology is today the continued empiricism of an evolving society. And the processes
of real development of
the country here described are the remnant of
the many discussions that
took place in the last da ys
about war. "
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