Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

Tiago Quiroga 54 ditional culture, the powers that maintain proper convention- al ethics, patriotism, bourgeois religion [...] to compensate [...] overburdens [...] of competitive society and accelerated modern- ization” (HABERMAS, 2015, p. 228), but also the very produc- tion of knowledge, conceived as decisive for the constitution of modern democracies, would be among the targets of the new obscurantism. Now, one of the questions that one can ask, then, refers to the type of reaction triggered in the scientific environment, where there seems to be no doubt that different interpreta- tions about the event in question predominate. However, given the eloquence of the attacks, one can say, comparatively, how great is still the difficulty, on the part of the different areas, in giving intelligibility to the recent events. The hypothesis devel- oped here is that, to a large extent, this difficulty comes from the ascendancy of social modernization, under the current episte- mological production, which, among its effects, would produce the dehydration of the present time as an emancipatory device erected by cultural modernization. Although it results from the neoliberal singularity, which seeks to save liberalism from the failed naturalistic ontology of laissez-faire , legally ensuring the functioning of the market - which demands progressive state in- terventionism, and then becomes a company (DARDOT; LAVAL, 2016), such dehydration will be analyzed here as a result of the growing disconnection between knowledge production and so- cial form. In other words, with the emergence of the new knowl- edge economy, based on the transmission of information, also al- tered the nature of science, pedagogical institutions, and differ- ent forms of individual conscience, henceforth made profitable investments that must be measured, but also its relationship with what could be called society production. From the point of view of post-industrial economies, contemporary epistemologi- cal production should no longer deal with the public political sphere or the universality of rights , but with the increase of ser- vices and operational procedures that improve organizations as economic agents of capital (CHAUI, 2018). It is the histori- cal conjunction in which institutions are founded on the axiom of the company as a paradigm of subjectivation, and knowledge guided both by organizational self-reproduction and the ideals