Reseña del libro de S. Zuboff, La era del capitalismo de la vigilancia.

El presente trabajo busca rastrear la figura de Baruch Spinoza en el pensamiento de Judith Butler. Por ello, se analizará, en un primer momento, la tan afamada oposición entre Spinoza y Hegel para, en una segunda instancia, reparar cómo Butler entiende la propia filosofía de Spinoza y, finalmente, ver de qué manera la filósofa logra hermanarla a la de Hegel. A través de estos tres momentos podemos ver cómo es posible pensar, en el decir de Butler, una continuidad complementaria entre (...) Spinoza y Hegel. (shrink)

Since the end of the last century, we have witnessed the pronounced process of transformation, dispersion and heterogenization that has affected contemporary borders. This phenomenon has led to the proliferation of numerous studies that have attempted to explain it from diverse foucauldians conceptual categories. This paper aims to bring together some of these lines of research, showing the way in which -drawing largely from studies deployed around the notion of security- the latter have led to more or less resignifying analyzes (...) of the modern concept of the border, linked to the idea of the delimitation of the national state. (shrink)

This text raises the change in the notion of disease that occurred in the 5th century BC. through the comparison between nósos, insanity and plague in the tragedies of Sophocles and the new diagnostic process that will be launched with the establishment of the Hippocratic corpus. Analyzing the causes, the cure and the being of the disease in the Philoctetes, Ajax and Oedipus Rex, we will be able to observe the distances with respect to the technical and rational conception of (...) the Hippocratic diágnosis and thus delimit the processes of technical development, democratization of knowledge, loss of divine authority that will make possible a medicine liberated, as knowledge, from its ancestral religious roots. (shrink)

After summarizing its general guidelines and starting from the problematization of a model example, this article aims to test a critique of the bayesian version of the theory of individual decision and the notion of subjectivity isolated from the context it adopts within the framework of its individualistic matrix. It does so from a perspective, built on the basis of various contributions from feminist epistemology, that calls for an analysis of how unequal power relations and androcentric mandates affect the configuration (...) of the desires and beliefs of people who suffer experiences of subordination, conditioning - in extreme cases invalidating - their margins of choice and action. (shrink)

Jean Améry’s work is one of the most notable attempts of philosophical reflection made by a survivor of the concentration camps. He exemplifies through his own person and his writings an ethos of radical humanism, in front of a world transformed by totalitarianism in the realm of strangeness. In this article we want to approach Jean Améry's thinking from the perspective of his original theorization of resentment. A reflection on the human condition and on the demand for justice and reparation (...) understood as negative ontology of the human condition and as a morality that theorizes the future as a kind of impossibility. (shrink)

A politics of the common is defended based on the ontological and epistemological contributions of Espinosa and Deleuze. A policy capable of articulating the different claims of minorities seeking to escape the fall into exclusive identity essentialisms that rigidly define who is a true proletarian or a true woman, etc. A politics of the common that, starting from differences, is oriented towards a policy “from the whole world” and “for the whole world”, through minority becoming that conclude in an “imperceptible (...) becoming”; that is to say, it is a politics of differences that leads to the indifference of each one, since it refers to what individuals have in common rather than what separates them. It is a policy based on reason, but a reason that does the math with the passions, in the Spinosian trail, and with the unconscious factors, in the Deleuzian trail. A reason, therefore, situated and open to sensitivity, affections and feelings, but without falling into irrational or sentimental rhetoric. (shrink)

Labor, work, and action are the three activities which form vita activa for Hannah Arendt. Action is the activity on which she built her political thought, so literature has focused on it. Thus, labor and work have been relegated to the background, ignoring what both retain and illuminate. The article shows the difficulties of the slippery distinction between labor and work, especially when labor and work are understood as concepts, crystallizations of the phenomena Arendt intended to capture. Instead, it proposes (...) that labor and work acquire their deepest meaning when understood as experiences, that is, the mentalities and ways of life of animal laborans and homo faber, always within Arendt’s effort to understand Modernity and totalitarianism. (shrink)

This article proposes the hypothesis that the appearance of hyper-realism in culture - the search for the exact expression of reality in cultural works, aided by new reproduction techniques - has suppressed the work of culture: to bestow upon being human the ability to imagine alternative realities. With the aim of substantiating this hypothesis, we will go through both the approaches of Arthur Danto and Mark Fisher and those of Adorno and Marcuse, all of them denouncing the closure of our (...) critical instance and the incapacity of our political instance. Finally, we will give our own opinion regarding the currency of the hypothesis. (shrink)

Concepción Arenal is a multifaceted figure: journalist, philosopher, educator, criminal lawyer, poet and activist for civil and social rights, she is characterized by a resolute political and ideological independence. Her educational and reformist approach aimed at the most vulnerable categories - the child, the destitute, the prisoner, the woman - is animated by a vision in which the social question is always understood as a moral and even religious question. This is why, in his writings and in his action, the (...) ideals of justice are always accompanied by the rejection of all forms of violence, by the need to promote economic improvement along with moral elevation, and by the requirement to humanize all forms of assistance with the warmth of charity. (shrink)