Sentidos insignificantes

Abstract

For Henri-Pierre Jeudy, societies today are overflowing. Not from the understanding of having objects or persons in excess, which could easily be contested, but rather that there is an overflowing of senses in societies today. The profusion of discourses and images that circulate in contemporary society makes objects and people themselves insignificant, encouraging particularly the growing indifference to a reality made of images and discursive in nature that does not display any anchorage in a pre-existing reality. The information, the media produces and circulates, ceaselessly and in every way, constitutes its own referent. In other words, represented reality is considered as reality expressed, falling completely in tautism (contraction of tautology and autism), which, according to L. Sfez, characterises contemporary society.