It has just come out in bookstores Explosive modernity, by Eva Illouz (Ediciones 62). The thinking of this woman, born in Fez, Morocco, in 1961, is one of the most interesting on the current scene. I don't know whether to say she's the most sociological philosopher or the most philosophical sociologist, but her ideas often offer a different and interesting perspective. I made my students read Love, reason, irony, which is the transcription of a lecture he gave at the CCCB in 2011. I like that at no point does he try to épater the bourgeoisie, one of the intellectual epidemics of the 1970s, a resilient and constantly mutating virus. I also appreciate that it is expressed clearly. The aforementioned book talks about emotions, but it has nothing to do with the usual cheesy, soft nyigo-nyigo when this topic is discussed. Emotions can be perceived almost as a behavioral failure that deviates us from the safe path of rationality, or, in an opposite sense, as our true identity, the one that makes us human. Blade Runner, the test to catch replicants is based, precisely, on discerning the presence or absence of emotions.