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The beginning of the Third Millennium has to face a double interconnected challenge. First of all, we need a new theoretical approach to the world-society because the digital revolution is going to substitute anthropological life with cybernetics and AI. Secondarily, it is necessary to elaborate a new epistemic way to analyze this evolutionary change in […]

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the socio-political construction of ambivalence in contemporary society, meaning for “construction” a specific strategy of the ruling classes. Since the 1980s, contemporary to the rise of post-industrial society, the concept of “contradiction” has been side-lined and several scholars, including new left intellectuals, have started to speak of

Since the first sociological approach to the city, its ambivalence has been linked to opposing human needs (Simmel, 1903; Elias, 1936, 1989). Park (1915) and Wirth (1938) expanded on the ambivalent features of the city as the coexistence of maximum expression of individual freedom and the pressure of social control. This is the context in