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Dall'idologia all'ordine del discorso. L'interpellazione di Althusser, le parole di Foucault
No full textIl saggio analizza il problematico nesso tra ideologia e processi di soggettivazione a partire dai lavori di Althusser. La rivisitazione della tradizione marxista, che fa coincidere l’ideologia con la falsa coscienza, mette in luce il ruolo decisivo esercitato dal momento simbolico nella costruzione del soggetto. Questa prospettiva trova un punto di continuità nell’opera di Foucault, che però sgancia il concetto di verità da qualsiasi matrice scientifica, valorizzandone la dimensione etica e autopoietica. L’esito è la configurazione di soggettività singolari irriducibili a qualsiasi universalizzazione, con tutte le conseguenze in termini di progettualità politic
El acróbata en los tiempos del neoliberalismo. Un comentario sobre Peter Sloterdijk
No full textIntentar preguntarse alrededor de la actual condición humana significa emprender una operación compleja, que esconde numerosas insidias
Vigilar y predecir: el nuevo gobierno de los algoritmos
No full textThe article analyses the evolution of contemporary forms of government in the light of a decisive shift: from biopolitical rationality based on statistics and probabilistic population management, to a new form of algorithmic government based on automated prediction and opaque data processing. Starting from Foucauldian reflections on power and the government of the living, the text shows how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated processes that were already underway, contributing to a radical digitisation of experience and a reconfiguration of subjectivities in terms of numerical flows and computational signals. This shift produces a profound transformation in the production of truth and processes of subjectivation, marking the transition from a knowledge based on observation, critique and reflexivity to an algorithmic, performative and predictive regime of truth. The algorithm does not merely describe reality, but helps to produce it, generating automatic responses that replace subjective processing. The article problematises the political and epistemological implications of this new normative order, which, while simplifying the complexity of reality, risks expropriating subjects of their critical capacity, their agency and the possibility of constructing less governed forms of life. In conclusion, we propose the need to imagine new political practices, zones of friction and common spaces capable of curbing the normative power of the algorithmic machine.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)El artículo analiza la evolución de las formas contemporáneas de gobierno a la luz de un cambio decisivo: de la racionalidad biopolítica basada en la estadística y la gestión probabilística de la población, a una nueva forma de gobierno algorítmico basado en la predicción automatizada y el tratamiento opaco de datos. Partiendo de las reflexiones foucaultianas sobre el poder y el gobierno de los vivos, el texto muestra cómo la pandemia de Covid-19 ha acelerado procesos que ya estaban en marcha, contribuyendo a una digitalización radical de la experiencia y a una reconfiguración de las subjetividades en términos de flujos numéricos y señales computacionales. Este cambio produce una profunda transformación en la producción de verdad y en los procesos de subjetivación, marcando la transición de un conocimiento basado en la observación, la crítica y la reflexividad a un régimen de verdad algorítmico, performativo y predictivo. El algoritmo no se limita a describir la realidad, sino que ayuda a producirla, generando respuestas automáticas que sustituyen al procesamiento subjetivo. El artículo problematiza las implicaciones políticas y epistemológicas de este nuevo orden normativo que, a la vez que simplifica la complejidad de la realidad, corre el riesgo de expropiar a los sujetos de su capacidad crítica, de su agencia y de la posibilidad de construir formas de vida menos gobernadas. En conclusión, proponemos la necesidad de imaginar nuevas prácticas políticas, zonas de fricción y espacios comunes capaces de frenar el poder normativo de la máquina algorítmica
From Fanon to the Postcolonials: For a Strategic and Political Use of Identities
No full textIn this essay I will focus on some theoretical issues concerning Fanon’s thinking. The aim is to grasp the influence his thought has exerted over the theories of some of the scholars of the postcolonial field – such as Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak – but also to emphasize the turns that the latter have impressed on his conceptual legacy. These authors all share an interdisciplinary outlook in which the often unorthodox use of psychoanalytical categories allows not only to critically analyze the relationship with otherness and the processes of identification, but also to evoke the entrance on the stage of politics of the mute and motionless subjects of Western history: the colonized, migrant and subordinate; as Rancière would say “la part des sanspart”, in reference to those who are excluded from the democratic process. The aim of ‘provincializing’ the dominant narrative of Western modernity is inseparable from the need to properly theorize processes of political subjectivation capable of producing effects within the folds of such a discours
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