In one of these worlds, the disintegration of the social is so absolute-misery, poverty, unemployment, starvation, squalor, violence and death-that the intricately elaborated social schemes of utopian thinkers become as frivolous as they are irrelevant. Does this peculiar entity still have a social function? If it no longer does so, then perhaps the explanation lies in that extraordinary historical dissociation into two distinct worlds which characterizes globalization today.
U topia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.
