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On the aestheticization of technologized bodies : a portrait of a cyborg(ed) form of agency
2017
Discussions revolving around cyborgs seldom include aesthetics, let alone propose aesthetics as an inextricable part of the phenomenon of the cyborg. Rather, the term “cyborg”, a contraction of “cybernetic organism”, evokes a figure of the (hu)man- machine. In the field of social and political sciences, the cyborg is designated a human-machine hybrid, a metaphor of humans becoming machinelike, or a portrait of (political) agency in an era of high technology. These approaches promote a figure of technologized bodies, that is, the cyborg as a figure of technologically dominated and altered bodies. I will sustain that the cyborg contributes to our understanding of agency in the age of high tec…
Invisible Ends Justify Secret Means: Homeland, Machiavelli, and the Least of All Possible Evils
2021
In the rhetoric informing Niccolò Machiavelli’s thought and the contemporary War on Terror, the dialectic between ethics and necessity within the framework of the process of secularization represents a cohesive thread. This very dialectic constitutes also the narrative principle presiding Homeland, one of most insightful TV shows having developed a critical reflection about the present time so far. Dealing with terrorist practices and counterterrorism tactics, the series provides an accurate depiction of the fears featuring nowadays Western societies and the means through which American institutions attempt to answer them . This essay proposes a survey of the conceptual core belonging to th…
El descrédito de la democracia / 4: Los posmodernos y el 'egocasting'
2006
Del «afuera del pensamiento» al «pensamiento del afuera»: Deleuze entre Blanchot y Foucault
2015
Este escrito comienza por analizar la función tan clave como paradójica que cumple el afuera en Deleuze: ser a la vez lo que no puede ser pensado (lo no-representable) y lo que tiene que ser pensado 8la consistencia misma de lo no-representable en cuanto da que pensar), para luego señalar las inflexiones que seproducen, vía Foucault, desde su conceptualización blanchotiana hasta su recepción deleuziana. This dissertation starts by analysing the function, as fundamental as it is paradoxical, that plays the outside in Deleuze: being at the same time that which cannot be thought (the non-representable) and that which has to be thought (the consistency itself of the non-representable as it indu…
LA STRATEGIA DELL'ACCERCHIAMENTO
2009
One pendulum to run them all
2013
The analytical solution for the three-dimensional linear pendulum in a rotating frame of reference is obtained, including Coriolis and centrifugal accelerations, and expressed in terms of initial conditions. This result offers the possibility of treating Foucault and Bravais pendula as trajectories of the same system of equations, each of them with particular initial conditions. We compare them with the common two-dimensional approximations in textbooks. A previously unnoticed pattern in the three-dimensional Foucault pendulum attractor is presented.
Classical Geometric Phases: Foucault and Euler
2020
In the last chapter we saw how a quantum system can give rise to a Berry phase, by studying the adiabatic round trip of its quantum state on a certain parameter space. Rather than considering what happens to states in Hilbert space, we now turn to classical mechanics, where we are concerned instead with the evolution of the system in configuration space. As a first example, we are interested in the geometric phase of an oscillator that is constrained to a plane that is transported over some surface which moves along a certain path in three-dimensional space. Contrary to determining the Berry phase, there is no adiabatic approximation of the motion along the curve involved. The Foucault phas…
Academics as Politicians and as Operators of Global Governance
2018
In this chapter, the author scrutinizes the links between politics and academe in global governance. He analyzes two cases, those of former president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and philosopher Michel Foucault, that exemplify different types of political engagement. Social scientists play a key but concealed part in the steering of global governance. Under and beyond global institutions, they partake in the development of influential transnational professional groups. By producing practical knowledge for everyday or ‘banal’ global governance, social scientists shape the politically imaginable at more institutional levels. Yet others provide at a higher level of abstractio…
Foucault, posverdad y parresia
2019
In this paper, Vaccaro aims to interrogate the political value of truth. Moving from Hannah Arendt and the debate between modernity and postmodernity, the paper focus the Will to truth according the elaboration of Nietzsche, but also the first Collège de France course by Foucault in the ’70s. The thesis is a etho-politics of telling the truth, that to say the parrhesia, as an antidote either to the nihilation of truth in the post-truth, or to the enforcement of truth as the One in politics.
El pensamiento politico de Foucault: de la ethopoyesis a la ethopolitica
2015
En este ensayo, Salvo Vaccaro analiza el pensamiento politico de Foucault. En primer lugar, el compara el concepto de soberania —fundamental para la tradicion filosofico-politica—las analiticas del poder y el dispositivo de saber-poder de la gubernamentalidad. En este itinerario, Foucault considera el dominio como fuerza de objetivacion. En segundo lugar, Vaccaro da cuenta de como Foucault reconstruye las lineas de subjetivacion del si, en un recorrido de investigacion que llega a la antiguedad clasica, aunque el resultado final de una formacion etica del si no lleva a la estrategia del pensamiento politico de Foucault. En conclusion, Vaccaro propone un panorama de ethopolitica capaz de dec…