El Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior, o la siniestra necesidad del caos

Resum

We carry out a critical analysis of the so-called �knowledge society� in order to show in what way the European Space for Higher Education (ESHE) constitutes the paradoxical culmination of this society. The �knowledge society� begins to solidify when the technologies, progressively specialized and separated from the possible basic scientific control of their consequences, begin to make possible a process of economic optimization between the investment and the productive profitability that is in turn feedbacked for a consumption increasingly unstoppable. This process requires in principle to promote the sociological map that provides the educational support for a labor market in agreement with this economictechnologically optimized and full of consumerism society. But due to the increasingly unstoppable dynamics of consumerism which is the axis of rotation of all this process, the relationships between supply and demand within the consumption market, and with them the requirements of the labor market, will begin foreseeably to become random or unforeseeable, which will requires the creation of the corresponding educational support that generates a new type of maximum and indefinitely versatile professional. This one would be the necessity to which the project of the ESHE seeks basically to respond, but this project will thus be wrapped in the paradoxical task of trying to govern that which is ungovernable, that is to say that which is foreseeably unforeseeable. In turn, this process intrinsically disordered will be subjected, for effect of the (psycho)pedagogic intervention, to an incessant dynamics of enlarged reproduction by negative feedback that will complete the singular (ghastly) function of sustaining in progress that which in fact do not take to any place.