Supersociety

Mauro Magatti is Full Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Milan. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and is Director of the Centre for the Anthropology of Religion and Generative Studies (Arc) in the same university. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the Kellogg Institute at the Notre Dame University and at Centre d'études européennes at Sciences Po, Paris. His main scientific interests are the relationship between economy and society, the role of civic society, and globalisation in its cultural and social implications. Over the years, he has devoted himself to the topic of social generativity. His approach is informed by the deep empirical grounding of his theoretical elaboration. He has been editor ofStudi di Sociologia and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Political Anthropology. He is codirector with H.P. Muller (Humboldt University Berlin) of the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences. He is also a columnist for Il Corriere della Sera.

Chiara Giaccardi is Full Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Milan, Director of the Master in Musical Communication. Media, Industry, Digital Markers, and member of the Centre for the Anthropology of Religion and Generative Studies (Arc) in the same university. She has been visiting professor at the University of Kent (UK), UCA (Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires), PUCP (University of Lima), and Institute Catholic (Paris). Her main scientific interests are the relationship between technology and society, the critical approach to communication and globalization in its cultural and social implications. She has devoted herself to the topic of social generativity. Her approach is informed by the deep empirical grounding of his theoretical elaboration. She is Director of Comunicazioni Sociali Journal of Media, Performing Arts and Cultural Studies, and a columnist for Avvenire.

Introduction.- The Entropic Consequences of Liquid Modernity.- Digital Rationalisation: Welcome to Babel modernity.- The Age of Supersociety.- More Life in the Supersociety.- Epilogue.