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Este artigo traz de volta o Estado como um ator estratégico da globalização. Ao passo que os marxistas lamentam o murchamento do Estado, os neoliberais dão boas-vindas ao triunfo do mercado. Inspirado pela proposta de Habermas para uma constitucionalização do direito internacional, o autor insere os movimentos sociais na sua visão cosmopolita de um sistema multinível de governança. Através de uma leitura cruzada de Ulrich Beck e Antonio Gramsci, ele propõe atualizar a sociologia histórica do Estado e conectá-la à sociologia dos movimentos sociais, a fim de explorar como um Estado cosmopolita pode, porventura, atuar como um conversor num projeto contra-hegemônico de globalização.

This article presents an outline of Regis Debray's mediology. Situated at the crossroads of philosophy, theology, anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology, political sciences, semiotics, media and cultural studies, mediology is a relatively autonomous discipline that analyses the totality of the processes of mediation that intervene between culture and agency, and transform ideas into a material force. Mediology or mediation studies broadens the notion of media so as to include all material and institutional vectors of communication and defines mediation as the totality of interactions between culture and technology that make the diffusion (through space) and the transmission (over time) of ideas possible. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications and Thesis Eleven Co-op Ltd, copyright 2007.]

Reading the Communist Manifesto against the contemporary background of massive unemployment, the author argues that Marx's theory of work is no longer adequate to tackle the problem of "workers without work" & suggests that it has to be reformulated in such a way that its normative intuitions & its critical impulses can be maintained. In the first part, he presents a philosophical critique of Marxism that is inspired by Jurgen Habermas & Hannah Arendt. In the second part, he presents a sociological critique of Marxism & argues that the theory of the alienation of work implies a justification of work & the work society. Finally, in the last part, the author presents an ideological critique of Marxism that is inspired by Marcel Mauss's sociology of the gift. Criticizing the contractualist assumptions of workfare solutions, he proposes a package solution for a radical decommodification of the labor market by means of a disjunction of income & work. 58 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications Ltd.]