If any rupture of modernity had to be traced it would have to rely, rather than on sole increments on certain degree, in the shift of the categories we used to shape the world with.(1) The quantitative argument of globalization, in its exponential dimension, had to coalesce with the reconfiguration of the categories that served to represent the world. A merge of both societal and cognitive changes can account for the existence of an alteration.
We can assess certain arrangement of elements by means of the transformation of these configurations mapping our thought without matching with our actual representation of the situation. Representations are socially forged, they become modalities of apprehension, operating simultaneously changes in the possibilities of reconfiguring social change. In this sense, ideas function as innovation in economics, allowing new horizons of production, reshaping the activity by introducing new tools or forms of organization that alter the limits of productivity. New planes of construction use the previous sediments carried out by other planes to posit themselves on the morphogenesis of novel orographies.
(1) Hence the reliance on an unstable nomadology or in the increase of fluxes, For a difference between solid and fluid modernity cf. Z. Bauman, Liquid Modernity, Oxford 2003. M. Berman, All that is solid melts into air, London, 1983.
