Configuraciones tecnológicas del espacio público contemporáneopara una filosofía de la tecnología

  1. Gonçalves Ferreira Carvalho, Sílvia Marisa
Supervised by:
  1. Paulo Delgado Pereira Tunhas Director
  2. Andoni Alonso Puelles Director

Defence university: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 03 February 2017

Committee:
  1. Fernando de Lucas Murillo de la Cueva Chair
  2. Javier de la Cueva González-Cotera Secretary
  3. Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf Committee member
  4. Vicente Sanfélix Committee member
  5. Javier Echeverría Ezponda Committee member
Department:
  1. Filosofía y Sociedad

Type: Thesis

Abstract

Today precariat is the symbol for social relationship par excellence. This is a time where technology is more powerful than ever. And systemic produced and distributed vulnerability among the weaker is the kernel for those social and productive relationships. Individuals are at the same time abandoned and colonized under the ideas of transparency, proactivity, optimism and flexibility. Desiring thinking and pacifying techniques for difficulties are just excuses to leave everything as it is in fact: a code to impoverish the social that benefits only small social sectors. Often discrimination against the more exposed appears among the weaker themselves. The psycho-political structure guarantees to perpetuate the destructive order against environment, society and culture. De-grow and alternate ways of life represents a different vital and collective horizon proposed more than half century ago. A true perspective would reveal its inevitability. The answer to systematic misery given by technology is to renounce to be part of that order. Solutions such as productive citizenship, free knowledge, platforms to share and exchange knowledge and experiences are some examples for that possible change although in a molecular level. Those are viable and alternate modes for the narrative of progress, growth and development. Also those alternatives manifest the desire of a future society different to the full employment, flooded with objects and saturated with useless activities. The social and political thinking that presents full employment as something desirable becomes a decadent proposal for the times we must live in. To be more aware of that decadence it is required to contemplate precariat something beyond the category of loser. Precariat is the result of a type of society and maybe the beginning of another completely different...