About a theory of the loss

Abstract

Contemporary society knows a new concept of loss, different from past eras. In the framework of capitalism, loss has become taboo, it is no longer accepted and no one wants to be infected by the ‘losers’. On the other hand, nothing is really completely lost, but remains in the net, even when we think we have erased it, or remains as waste, waiting to be recycled. Loss thus becomes the last utopia of a culture without gods, to whom, in the past, was entrusted the responsibility of giving order and meaning to loss, separation, death.