(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto Riva-Agüero, 2021-12-02) Peña, Daria
It is clear that social movements are not the same since the emergence of social networks. They have definitely revolutionised the way we express ourselves, communicate and organise. However, they are a double-edged tool. In this essay I analyse the main characteristics of social movements in the network era, mainly from two perspectives: that of Manuel Castells and that of Byung-Chul Han. Thus, I will determine whether they are experiencing a favourable or detrimental development with respect to the achievement of their objectives and, above all, I will make visible the new obstacles that appear in virtuality in order to overcome them.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto Riva-Agüero, 2021-12-02) Jordán, Rubén
This article explores the pharmacological character of technology in the light of the anonymous internet browsing free software case and its political potential. It is contended that software, which is at the foundation of the neoliberal surveillance and psychopolitical control system depicted by Byung-Chul Han, may be at the same time, when implemented in open-source programs that hide our digital fingerprint, a tool for resistance and emancipation. This is due to the fact that such implementation attacks the fundamental principles of the dataist domination logic: transparency and predictability.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto Riva-Agüero, 2021-12-02) Granados, Alejandra
This article considers carefully the dual structure of the sign made up by the conjunction of the meaning, the object of comprehension, and the signifier, the material medium for expressing the aforementioned object of comprehension. However, given the emotional life encouraged by esthetic stimuli, as body movement and music in particular, such stability and consonance of the linguistic dual structure are called into question. In that context of unstableness, creativity and transformation are evinced as essential conditions for language to work.