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Middle-Class Homeostasis in the 21st Century
Trapped in Its Own Warmth, in the Spirit of Pierre Bourdieu. Szymon Woźnica | Series: Affective Feudalism
This book asks a question that moves critical theory one step beyond both Bourdieu and Han: what happens when doxa — Bourdieu’s concept of the silent, pre-reflexive acceptance of the rules of the field — becomes an active weapon? When the middle class in late capitalism stops fighting for the future and begins fighting to preserve affective equilibrium?
A Dialogue with Bourdieu and Byung-Chul Han
Woźnica engages in productive, rigorous dialogue with both thinkers. He adopts Han’s diagnosis of the fatigue society as a starting point, then dismantles one of its key claims: Han declares the death of social immunology prematurely. Immunology has not vanished — it has changed its operating code from identity-based to affective. Bourdieu’s doxa, meanwhile, is recast from a descriptive concept of the field into a mechanism of active selection: doxic immunology is a system in which exclusion operates not through prohibition but through the regulation of relational “climate” — vibe, access to circulation, and the management of presence.
