(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto Riva-Agüero, 2021-12-02) Matos, Alejandro
If we take into account the plasticity of human beings characterisctic of the kantian (autonomy) or sartrean (self-determination) conceptions, we can state that their essence or authenticity is, to a certain degree, mediated by contingency. With this being the case, the present article delves into the forces of current technology and virtuality aiming to find some clues to conceptualize a hypothetical telos capable of providing a picture of the following transformations that the contemporary subject could go through. Thus is a philosophical anthropology, framed by a new machinic and digitalized daily life, displayed here.
(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.