HIPERCONSUMO Y DEVALUACIÓN POLÍTICA

Abstract

The central proposition of this article consists in that the last development of the consumer society has implied the transformation of politics either in a consumption object or in an object for consumption. To defend it, I will mention some positions which have warned against the negative influence of consumption on public sphere; later, I will make a brief historical explanation able to justify the drift to hyperconsumption; upon this basis, I will discuss the aforementioned positions; in the end, I will argue that, in the context of hyperconsumption, politics is devaluated in terms of the consumers’ defense or in terms of a democracy centered on media.