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Incidents. Exploring Dense Society

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the assumptions of incidentology, a program of reflection and research on late-modernity which focuses on the normality and universality of sudden and surprising episodes and considers them the main factors organizing social life.. Events of this kind, formerly marginal, now obtain the new status primarily due to the increasing complexity of contemporary reality, which in its turn makes the emergence one of the most important order-making processes. An important feature of the article is an attempt to demonstrate the reasons why the „normalization” of the incident encounters opposition in popular thinking, in the practices of the state and in the scholarly reflection on social life. It is claimed that the sources of this resistance lay in the durability of the schemes of understanding and explaining social life developed by modernity.

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