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Democracy at the end of the History
2013
This article analyzes the loss of legitimacy that the economic crisis brought upon representative democracy and the consequences that can be drawn for the thesis of the end of History. The thesis we defend here is that the deterioration of the welfare state, as a result, under very specific conditions, of the capitalism in certain parts of the world, runs parallel with the delegative degradation of democracy.
Marcos mentales: ¿marcos morales? Deliberación pública y democracia en la neuropolítica
2018
En este trabajo trato de abordar el concepto de «marco mental» como clave para entender la concepción que la neuropolítica tiene de la deliberación pública y la democracia. En un primer lugar expondré los puntos centrales de las teorías de Jonathan Haidt y George Lakoff sobre el marco mental y la deliberación pública. Después pondré en relación la idea del marco mental con el concepto de «marco referencial» de Taylor. Finalmente, analizaré críticamente el modelo de deliberación pública y de democracia que cabe extraer del concepto de marco mental en la neuropolítica.
La Acción colectiva: Todo poder viene de abajo
2011
RESUMEN. Con este trabajo queremos reflexionar sobre el poder de la acción colectiva en relación con las transformaciones políticas. Para ello, nos hemos centrado en la noción de intencionalidad colectiva del filósofo John Searle y algunos otros autores que han analizado la capacidad de regeneración democrática que surge de las reivindicaciones de los ciudadanos. De nuevo se constata que no existe alternativa a la legitimidad del poder político si no se la otorgan los pueblos. ABSTRACT. In this paper we reflect on the power of collective action in relation to political transformations. To do this, we have focused on the notion of collective intentionality of the philosopher John Searle and…
Kirjoittamisen arkipäiväistäminen Pentti Saarikosken ja Mirkka Rekolan runoudessa
2014
Writing as Part of the Everyday in Pentti Saarikoski’s and Mirkka Rekola’s Poetry This article examines the processes of writing as part of the everyday in Pentti Saarikoski’s kuljen missa kuljen and Mirkka Rekola’s Ilo ja epasymmetria, both published in 1965. I argue that both collections make this process visible, and both authors thus actively participate in the discussion about poetry in the 1960s through their poetry. While Saarikoski’s poetry was appreciated as communicative, democratic poetry, Rekola’s writing was considered as old-fashioned modernist poetry – a characterization associated at the time also with Finnish-Swedish poetry. In this article, I show that despite the attitude…
Valiant, vital and virtuous : A time-snap review
2020
A time-snap review – moments captured pictorially – means the creation of multi-layered observation. The enquiring gaze then extends beyond the present moment: to its existential roots. However, it is not a question of presenting an historical list, a collection of topics of various types and periods. Of course, understanding the present also requires knowledge of the people and events of the past. In this way it also becomes possible to study the recurring nature of existence. Can war-related travel also count as cultural travel? Is it possible to talk about war tourism? Presumably, in many countries the answer to this will be positive. It relates to the history of ideas and also to nation…
Understanding Democracy: Economic and Political Perspectives
1997
Democracy has moved to the centre of systemic reflections on political economy, gaining a position which used to be occupied by the debate about socialism and capitalism. Certitudes about democracy have been replaced by an awareness of the elusiveness and fluidity of democratic institutions and of the multiplicity of dimensions involved. This is a book which reflects this intellectual situation. It consists of a collection of essays by well-known economists and political scientists from both North America and Europe on the nature of democracy, on the conditions for democracy to be stable, and on the relationship between democracy and important economic issues such as the functioning of the …
Da Toniolo a Sturzo : scenario storico e progetto politico dei cattolici in Italia
2020
Le biografie intellettuali di Giuseppe Toniolo e Luigi Sturzo, arricchite dal loro considerevole patrimonio di opere d’ingegno e d’azione, raccontano in prima persona la storia del movimento cattolico italiano, descrivendone e preparandone dall’interno i cambiamenti che esso vive e attraversa durante alcuni decisivi passaggi intercorsi tra l’Ottocento e il Novecento. Di questo percorso storico, infatti, l’uno e l’altro sono a pieno titolo protagonisti e vi agiscono elaborando idee e visioni, i cui effetti si colgono distintamente nelle organizzazioni sociali e politiche da loro concepite e fondate. Le Settimane sociali e il Partito popolare italiano restano nel tempo come i punti cardinali …
Thomas Paine's influence on the Girondin constitutional project of 1793
2018
This article aims to investigate what may have been Thomas Paine's influence on the Girondin constitutional project presented by Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet to the French Nation...
Nación, emoción y fantasía. La España melodramática de Ayguals de Izco = Nation, Emotion and Fantasy. Ayguals de Izco's Melodramatic Spain
2017
El artículo analiza las novelas por entregas de Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco (1801-1873) desde su dimensión melodramática para señalas de qué modo participaron en la creación de los imaginarios, las narrativas sociales y políticas y la "comunidad emocional" del radicalismo democrático español de mediados del siglo XIX. Posteriormente examino una serie de "fantasías nacionales" que se repiten con insistencia en estas novelas melodramáticas: la unión matrimonial como metáfora de la plenitud nacional, el mártir por la patria y el "ángel de salvación" que socorre a los desfavorecidos. Todas estas fantasías se fundan en la diferencia sexual (al tiempo que la construyen) y permiten la identificación…
(Re)creating “society in silico” : surveillance capitalism, simulations and subjectivity in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal
2021
This article provides a different angle to understand the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data scandal. It focuses on the role of models and simulations in the big data campaigning tools CA allegedly used, and their epistemological and ontological potential to produce and reproduce voters' digital doubles that would first colonise and eventually replace the analogue selves they were related to. By integrating and revising Zuboff's surveillance capitalism framework with Debord's classic theory of the Spectacle, the article argues that the dystopian simulations played as real life experiments by surveillance capitalist firms such as CA have the ultimate goal of replacing analogue humanity with digit…