Knowledge and Wisdom or how to be an Intellectual in the Contemporary Society of Spectacle Cover Image

Mudrost i znanje ili kako biti intelektualac u savremenom društvu spektakla
Knowledge and Wisdom or how to be an Intellectual in the Contemporary Society of Spectacle

Author(s): Fahira Fejzić Čengić
Subject(s): Media studies, Social Philosophy, Social differentiation, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: anomy; BH society; protests; media spectacle; framing; modern intellectuals; wisdom;

Summary/Abstract: Sometime before, in the era of more transparent interpersonal relations, people were among frequent topics in media and intellectual discourse. For the purpose of hiding the most important international relations' “owners of the power", in the present moment, the emphasis is on the shifted goals of so called patocracy through so called spectacle events. Once upon time the people behind (or instigators of) important historical events were boasting with their 'managerial ’ role, emphasizing how it helped their careers, burning ambition in making known ‘their masterminding role ’ known to everyone. The contemporary and very ‘overt ’ era for wide and ignorant masses, gradually turns into the hiding place for ‘elites. ’ Otherwise, it becomes the place for ‘mimicking influential elites. ’ Therefore elites and ‘elites’ lead the masses. Or they utilize the line of least resistance to accept, otherwise unimaginable attitudes, unnatural ideas or conditions in certain communities. The anomy is hard to categorize because o f the inability to pin a name to an elusive social feature. Without a shred of doubt, we are living in micro-anemic societies. Anomic societies do create anomic journalism and intellectuals.

  • Issue Year: LVI/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 159-171
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Bosnian
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