Re-Naming Ourselves: The Political Act of Conceptualizing Identity

We live in a post-ludic society, whereby various kinds of phenomena escape acknowledgment, in virtue of some complex (inter)face that intimidates intellectual effort. It is time for scholars in academia to take the enterprise of naming their experiences, with an eye to the possibility of creating a new domain of order, a new’ivory tower,’ more accustomed to the current every day. Like Bastian Balthazar Bux in The Never-ending Story, by Michael Ende, we need to enter this Fantasia that interpellates us and start giving things and phenomena their right names. The world around us requires our response. We shall prepare ourselves for giving it. In this paper, we want to think of ways of looking at the democratic game of political encounter and rename its new rules, in a quest for new forms of societal transparency.